This Florida river lets you find fossils millions of years old, including real megalodon shark teeth beneath the surface.

Afossil uncovered along the Yangtze River in China is forcing scientists to rethink not just the origins of sponges but also the way they search for the earliest traces of animal life. For decades, a ...

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Driving down the road on Route 5 in South Deerfield, commuters are met with a prehistoric surprise: a giant volcano with a huge dinosaur statue smack in front of a bright-green shack. Most find ...

Modern rock-wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel. Today, rock-wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

SELINSGROVE, Pa. (AP) - The Wyalusing Rocks were supposed to be just a scenic stop on Jennifer Elick's drive to Tuckhannock, where she and other Pennsylvania geologists planned to meet. But then a ...

A fossil site in Australia shows iron can preserve soft tissues, changing how scientists search for ancient ecosystems.