When Phil Stokes discusses trilobites, mucrospirifer brachiopods or bryozoans, his eyes light up and his speech accelerates. He is clearly the right man for his job: running one of the nation’s ...

Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil hunting. Ludwig found her ...

Vera Korasidis works for the University of Melbourne. I’m a palaeontologist. That means I study fossils and learn about the ancient history of life on Earth. People ask me lots of questions about ...

Under McFetridge Drive in Chicago, two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides open a handmade wooden drawer. There are thousands of such drawers that ...

An amateur fossil hunter found a mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek. Experts said it was the first mammoth tusk found in the state. Mammoth tusks can offer unique insight into their lives, including ...

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 ...