They’re little time capsules, often holding stories so bizarre they make modern nature look boring. Some fossils reveal just how weirdly life used to work, while others pop up in the most unexpected ...

You might have an idea of what a fossil looks like – but these fossils are slightly different (and will change the way you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those who know a lot about fossils are likely already familiar with the Mazon Creek fossil just outside Chicago. Those who don't know a lot about fossils and the Mazon Creek site? They soon will, ...

The Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History features fossils that range from 7,000 to 7 million years-old. When Jim Pollard first laid eyes on the small town of Blue Earth, Minnesota, he was out ...

Students who signed up for Geology 461/661, a paleobiology class, got much more than they bargained for when they took a field trip to Carlin, Nevada, about 30 minutes west of Elko. “When Dr. Noble ...