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 ...

At first, the day looks like a classic fossil beach hunt: rough waves, shell layers, cliff falls, and the hope of finding a shark tooth. Then a small fragment changes everything. They identify it as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil hunting. Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017 ...

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 ...

Whitby Museum will mark Yorkshire Day this year with an event celebrating the amazing range of fossils found on the North ...

America is rife with stunning outdoor activities, including discovering the remnants of an ancient past. These destinations are a joy for fossil hunters.