In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young surveyor named William Smith noticed a surprising pattern: from one location to the next, rock layers (or "strata") were ...

Donkey Kong Bananza has three types of fossils to collect in every level, and we’re digging through the snow to uncover them all! In this video we’ll be going over every fossil location in the Freezer ...

New Jersey is a hotspot for ancient fossils. With just a sifter, a trowel, and a sense of curiosity, you can come face-to-face with New Jersey’s prehistoric past. Dr. Dana Ehret, curator of natural ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Beneath quiet farmland in New South Wales, researchers stumbled upon a site that defies scientific expectations. Hidden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists gather around an area where a fish fossil was found at a new dig site in St. George. The St. George Dinosaur ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

ST. GEORGE — The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting a new dig in an area where dinosaur bones were previously found, and experts hope it will reveal new insights into the state's ...