You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Long before dinosaurs, trilobites, or even jellyfish swam the seas, Earth’s oceans were filled with creatures that looked like squishy tubes or blobs. They had no bones, no shells, and no nervous ...

(CNN) — A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

For rock hounds, this weekend in Tahlequah is a gold mine, with exhibitors displaying their rocks, minerals, fossils and jewelry. The annual Rock and Mineral Show, put on by the Tahlequah Rock and ...

TALCOTT, W. Va. (WVVA/Gray News) - While many kids might dig on the playground for buried treasure, very few find anything of note. However, two kids in West Virginia are the exception after digging ...