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 ...

The fossil is of the first baby Pentaceratops ever discovered, researchers say. — -- The National Guard recently airlifted a rare baby dinosaur fossil, estimated to be 70 million years old, out ...

But it turns out my fossil wasn’t as rare as I thought. “This is almost certainly from Morocco, because almost all Spinosaurus fossils that we know of are from the Kem Kem formation of Morocco, and ...

Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a highly unusual detail: its internal organs are preserved. The findings were published in Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

LEVI, Utah (KSTU/CNN) — An incredibly rare dinosaur fossil had been on display for many years at a Utah museum. This week, it sold at auction for more than $30 million. The 150-million-year-old ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

One enduring misconception, perhaps fueled by the multimillion-dollar auctions, is that fossils are rare. “Across the world, people assume that everything’s going to be unmanageably expensive, but ...