It’s official: Minnesota’s state fossil is the giant beaver, an extinct creature the size of a small bear that roamed around the Twin Cities more than 10,000 years ago. Lawmakers had approved the new ...

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...

Shockingly, a fossil dating back 240 million years has finally been formally identified after spending decades hidden inside ...

An amateur fossil hunter who found a record-breaking giant armadillo fossil shows how everyone can indulge in this hobby!

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...