Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This short YouTube documentary chronicles the career of Dr. Fiann Smithwick, a paleontologist whose career was sparked by a chance ...

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 ...

Molly Sampson, age nine, knew exactly what she wanted for Christmas this past December: a pair of insulated wading boots. With the boots, she told her mom, she could go out into the water at Calvert ...

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – On this episode of Get 2 Know, hosted by Rob Fowler, we sit down with Casey Garvin with Foxy Fossils. Garvin is the founder, fossil finder, and designer behind Foxy Fossils ...

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Europeans weren't the first people to collect fossils in Australia. First, thanks for the article. I expected the island was discovered by homo sapiens quite a lot earlier than North America (whose ...