Amateur fossil hunters have been digging at a spot near Mitchell, Oregon for years. They’ve found plenty of ammonites, and one dinosaur toe bone. A few years ago, the Bureau of Land Management granted ...

Fossil hunting has been popular for ages. Maybe you’ve stumbled upon ancient remains yourself, whether on a walk on the beach or on a guided fossil-hunting tour. And amateur fossil hunters contribute ...

There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...

A Calvert County fossil hunter found a coffin and human skeleton in the Chesapeake Bay, prompting questions about how old the body is and where it could have originated. NBC reported Friday that ...

A lucky Florida family found a once-in-a-lifetime fossil that belonged to one of the biggest predators that ever roamed the ocean. Bricen Columbia, 19, found a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth in South ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be ...

GRAY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The extinct species is called Borophagus, meaning “gluttonous eater” — and now researchers have learned the giant bone-crushing dog was present at the Pliocene-era Gray Fossil ...

For over seven decades, fossil hunters have been digging in a spot near Mitchell, Oregon, where they have found plenty of ammonites and a single dinosaur toe bone. University of Oregon Emeritus ...