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

Would you lick a 65-million-year old dinosaur poop? Granted, it’s not a question many people ask themselves - but for George Frandsen it’s a firm, “Yes!”. Not merely a dinosaur fossil hunter, George ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

In 1902, professional fossil hunter Barnum Brown excavated a stunning set of bones from eastern Montana’s Cretaceous period rocks. The remains were clearly from a large carnivore—far more imposing ...

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...

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This documentary examines a rare predatory dinosaur whose oversized claws shocked paleontologists when they were first uncovered. Early interpretations struggled to explain why a hunter would rely so ...

You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?” That was Simba Srivastava’s first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted ...