When you are being trained as a palaeontologist or a geologist, you are told fossils only occur in sedimentary rocks,” ...

PERAMBALUR: The unique Ammonite Museum in Perambalur which showcased 120-million-year-old marine fossils has been closed for relocation, upsetting many people i ...

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Before B.C.a fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine reptile he found ...

Traskasaura sandrae, named today in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, was declared the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia in 2023. (Image Credit: Robert O. Clark) Researchers have formally ...

The sun-scorched mines of Morocco’s Oulad Abdoun Basin are some of the richest fossil-hunting sites in the world. Laid down between 70 and 50 million years ago, the basin’s rocks are valued ...

And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

Alan Jonason describes himself as a fossil buff. "When I was a kid, I would fill my backpack up with rocks when I would go hiking," he explained. "I still have some of them." To this day ...

“You never know when you’re going to strike gold,” said Chasteen. Gold, of course, means finding fossils in waterways around the state of Florida. When you head out with Chasteen and his ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine reptile he ...

Skull fragments and other fossil remains emerged from among more than 6,000 animal fossils found in some 177 million cubic feet of sand and sandstones that were dredged up in 2014–15 during ...