If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks. In the middle of the City ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Jean-Bernard Caron of the Departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, has uncovered a remarkable piece in the puzzle of the evolution of vertebrates.

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history. In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young ...

In 2009, commercial fossil hunters in Montana excavated what was, unbeknownst to them, the jaws of an important new species of dinosaur. Scientists weren't informed, and the fossil was sold to a ...

More people than ever before have been searching for and finding fossils on Prince Edward Island in the last few years. That interest has been further sparked by teacher Lisa Cormier's discovery last ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...