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.

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. Reading time 3 minutes Diversity is central to one of the biggest ...

Fossils uncovered in Japan nearly two decades ago have revealed a giant salamander believed to have inhabited the region's lakes and marshes roughly 3.5 million years ago.

A small dinosaur skeleton unearthed on an island off South Korea has given researchers something rarely preserved so clearly: ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo, and ...

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 ...

As well as helping his mental health, fossil hunting also led Myerscough to the discovery of a 201m-year-old plesiosaur ...