While whales from its era (mid-Miocene) are common, for so many bones to be preserved together is rare. With fossil hunting, timing is everything. The beach was completely cleaned of sand, Driesbach ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

Saltwick Bay, close to Whitby on the Yorkshire coast, is loved by locals and TikTok explorers alike for being a fossil hunting haven. According to LateRooms.com, the spot is a great alternative to ...

The National Park Service (NPS) called the paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument "groundbreaking," as it gives an idea of what the long-extinct animals lived like in ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and fossil enthusiast, found the piece after the 2024 storm washed away sand ...

While it had sharp, curved claws similar to those of a raptor, it didn’t use them for hunting. Instead, this dinosaur used its short, two-fingered hands to eat plants. "Duonychus takes that ...

A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how complete it is. Credit: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural ...

According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences used to obtain dire wolf DNA. The other piece was from a ...