Researchers Baffled After Mistaking Young Turtle Shells to be Oval-Shaped Plant Fossils, Bones Looked Like Plant Veins A ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

Investopedia / Jiaqi Zhou A shell corporation is a corporation without active business operations or significant assets. These types of corporations are not all necessarily illegal, but they are ...

Hawaiian cowboys known as paniolos and others plucked snails off branches and traded their variegated shells like baseball cards. Evidence of the kāhuli’s historical abundance felt jarring as ...

And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered it. For decorum’s sake, we had now ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites ...

A local amateur fossil hunter made the find on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke found some unusual fragments, which turned out to ...

I began doing fieldwork, collecting samples such as fossils, rocks and especially coal from deep exploitation chambers in these coal mines. I really needed a base for gathering and studying samples.

The fossil was first found in the quarry pit at Swindon Brick and Tile Company in 1874, a site now occupied by Halford's and The Range on Fleming Way. While most of the Swindon Stegosaur remains ...