Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They ...

The Canadian fossils belong to the White Sea group. But they appear to be around 567 million years old – 5 to 10 million ...

Bill O’Neal Jr. spent most of his life searching the muddy creeks and riverbanks of eastern North Carolina for pieces of ...

In Teruel, Spain, palaeontologists unearthed a nearly complete skull of the armoured dinosaur Dacentrurus armatus. This extraordinary find dates back 150 million years to the Late Jurassic period. The ...

Two years ago, Citadel's Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million for a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of ...

Washington is full of dazzling minerals and fossils — you just have to know where to look. But getting started as a so-called rockhound, or a collector of minerals and fossils, can be intimidating. A ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than belonging to a miniature species, they are actually baby ankylosaurs—some less ...

Grand Canyon National Park welcomes more than four million visitors per year. National Park Service The Grand Canyon is one of America’s most popular natural landmarks, attracting more than four ...

Dinosaur mummies are some of the rarest fossils ever discovered, preserving not just bones but skin, scales, and even traces of internal structures . These exceptional specimens allow scientists to ...

Maddy Buxton, Culture & Trends manager at YouTube, discusses how creators and digital animation on the platform are global, fan-driven, popular among young adults, and driving innovation and ...