Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teen, road trips to Dorset meant three things: Moores biscuits, swimming at the Durdle Door arch, and fossil hunting. We ...

The Earth is millions of years old, and while we have never encountered dinosaurs in person, we believe they once roamed the planet. Numerous civilizations and various species that are now extinct ...

Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...

Fossil identification hours are between 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm. If you don’t have a fossil, bring your questions, and get hands-on with real specimens at the touchable fossils table. Check out amazing ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, countless plants, animals, organisms, and creatures of every kind have come and ...

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Every fossil is a rarity because most organisms never make it into the fossil record. They’re scavenged, decompose, or vanish before they can be buried and compacted into sedimentary rocks, where most ...