What do budding paleontologists need to know before starting their search? In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the ...

Though most of us probably think of fossil hunting as the province of professional paleontologists, ancient fossils are actually surprisingly easy to locate.

Britain's rugged Jurassic Coast exposes millions of years of rock from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. It is a fossil-hunting goldmine.

Compression impressions ; Casts and moulds ; Petrification ; Carbonization ; Collecting specimens ; Cataloguing, preparation, and study of specimens ; Problems encountered with interpretation of ...

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the ...

ROYAL, Neb. (KCAU) — A group of Nebraska paleontologists spent time in Antelope County this weekend, helping residents identify the fossils they found themselves. According to paleontologists ...