Report of vertebrate fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon, USA.” The National Park Service is now highlighting the report’s findings, which include fossil tracks ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...

Today she’s a paleoanthropologist who hunts fossils in unstable territories to uncover the overlooked stories of human evolution. Ella is a fierce advocate for conducting research in places ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the earliest-known footprints of a reptile-like creature called an amniote. The tracks are about 356 million years old, pushing back the origin of reptiles and ...

“They add behavioral context to the body fossils we’ve collected over the years and help us better understand the climate and environmental conditions of prehistoric Oregon.” Unlike body ...

Fossil-bearing rocks are protected by law because of their heritage and scientific value. Fossil hunting in these rocks takes a lot of hard work and patience, splitting open the shales with a ...

Paleontologists at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, a nearly 14,000-acre, federally protected area in central Oregon, have been uncovering and analyzing fossilized bones and teeth for decades.

A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times. According to officials at the John Day Fossil Beds Monument in Kimberly ...