How to go on a fossil hunt with kids Dinosaur digs and other searches can be epic adventures. Here’s what you need to know to turn children into amateur paleontologists.

The spiders were coated in microalgae, which produced a substance that protected the 22.5 million-year-old creepy-crawlies from the ravages of time.

Gina Wysocki was bitten by the fossil-hunting bug when she was 9 years old and found a trilobite fossil while on a picnic. Now director of Dig Into the Experience, a fossil hunting tour program, she ...

Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot in the south of France, where fossils of spiders ...

Kids and parents can learn a thing or two about dinosaurs and other creatures from Fossil Posse Adventures's online classes.

A rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a find noteworthy for the scientific insight it may offer into the life history of this famous ...

Many textbooks describe how fossils form, but few refer to the fossils that are accumulating now, in sediments at the bottom of a local lake or river, in a peat bog, or along a beach.

The $75 million Edelman Fossil Park & Museum at Rowan University is scheduled to open Saturday, and many eager adults and children have been anticipating this moment - you might say for 66 million ...