65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Trending News: Alberta's Pipestone Creek, dubbed the \\"River of Death,\\" is a treasure trove of Pachyrhinosaurus fossils, offering unprecedented insights into dinosaur ...

Christopher Dean at University College London and his team analysed a dataset of more than 8000 fossils from four types of dinosaurs that lived between 84 million and 66 million years ago in North ...

Working out what animals that lived in the distant past looked like used to be thought impossible. But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some ...

On June 18, Becker sent about 200 fossils, which was 80% of his collection, in 19 different 60-pound packages and brought it to the university's mailroom. The suit said Becker gave the packages ...

The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia. It’s unclear how long Port Island will remain closed to visitors.

Some of the fossils belonged to a giant pterosaur known as Arambourgiania philadelphiae and provided a first look at its bone structure, as well as confirmation that it had a wingspan of 32.8 feet ...

When the “Peking Man” fossils went missing during World War II, the loss was considered one of the greatest tragedies in the history of paleoanthropology. After almost 80 years of searching ...

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner ...

Amber fossils are like a time capsule, preserving the three-dimensional structure of animals, plants, and other prehistoric items of interest. Every once in a while, however, paleontologists ...

There’s a good reason for why Maine’s state fossil is a primitive plant and not a species of charismatic megafauna. There simply aren’t any dinosaur fossils and almost no giant mammal ...

Alaska: Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (State Fossil) The woolly mammoth co-existed with Paleoindians. ©GorissenM / Flickr - Original Alaska named the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) its ...