Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.

Finding dinosaurs is a mixture of knowing where to look and pure luck. It typically involves paleontologists hiking for miles ...

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

These fossils, which include teeth, bones, and remains of ancient marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish, and sharks, come ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

"This discovery extends the known range of Tenontosaurus farther southwest than previously documented," Ricketts said. "Until now, fossils of this species were known primarily from localities farther ...

(CNN) — It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those ...