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Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils – Here’s What They Found

How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marin...

The Fossil Record May Be Missing 200 Million Years of Animal History

By the time animals left their first unmistakable fossils, they may already have had up to 200 million years of evolutionary history behind them. A fossil deposit in Mongolia prese...

This 345-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fooled Scientists for Decades

A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land. Pressed flat inside two slabs of Scottish rock, a 345-million-...

Mastodon Announce Vinyl Pressed With Mastodon Fossils

Every Mastodon record has Mastodon on it, but the new pressing of Marrow Deep has mastodon in it. The Atlanta metal legends have announced a new version of their latest album featu...

Dino-mite discovery! Belgian tourists discover the remains of a 174 million-year-old giant ichthyosaur while strolling o...

A pair of Belgian tourists have discovered the remains of a 174-million-year-old giant ichthyosaur while strolling on a beach in Dorset.

Adult fossil strengthens evidence for Homo erectus in southern Africa 2 million years ago

La Trobe archaeologists have described 18 new hominin fossils, including a second Homo erectus skull fragment that confirms the species first appeared in southern Africa 2.0 millio...

MASTODON Details Limited 'Marrow Deep' Vinyl Containing Actual Mastodon Fossils

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have just unveiled what may go down as one of the most distinctive vinyl variants in the history of the medium — a pressing of their acclai...

One of Earth’s Oldest Animal Fossils Found in a Norwegian Sheep Field

One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved in three dimensions has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, marking the first major new fossil site of its ki...

California workers uncover 40-million-year-old fossils, possibly thunder beast

How To Draw A Dinosaur Fossil

Hey art friends! Today we’re drawing a fossil. It’s a rock with a dinosaur footprint pressed right in, cracks and all. Art Supplies: Markers Marker paper Personalization ideas: Cha...

Mastodon Are Releasing Vinyl Containing Actual Mastodon Fossils

Limited to 170 copies, the "Bone Dust" vinyl was pressed in partnership with Waxwork Records and the University of Georgia's geology department

How much should a dinosaur cost?

Fossils are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction. But why are the ancient creatures the hot new thing for the ultrarich?

‘We’re in a mass extinction event right now’ | Researcher makes new discovery from fossils at Big Bone Lick

Fossils unearthed in Boone County are revealing new secrets about life during the ice age. A former UC professor says they can also tell us a lot about our world today.

Thunder beast or swamp rhino? Fossils of prehistoric animal uncovered at SoCal construction site

The fossilized remains, which belonged to a large, hoofed animal, are believed to be more than 40 million years old.

Is a whale fossil the leftovers of a Bronze Age Sunday roast?

A 10-year-old boy was out looking for fossils along the shore in Islandmagee when he spotted the back of the skull.

Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior

Unusual fossils from an ancient North Sea delta may reveal where plesiosaurs fed. Fossilized vomit is not the kind of evidence paleontologists usually dream about finding. But it m...

97-million-year-old fossils reveal the earliest known animal “GPS”

Mysterious 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils may be the oldest evidence of an animal using Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in GPS. Their sophisticated magnetic structure cou...

A teacher spotted two unusually large footprints. They turned out to be a first for science

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Kent Hups set out one morning on a research expedition in the famed Hell Creek Formation, a series of fossil-rich sedimentary rock layers in the west...

Mastodon announce Marrow Deep Bone Dust edition vinyl containing fragments of actual mastodon fossil

Mastodon vinyl album containing actual mastodon fossil is limited to just 170 copies – for obvious reasons

Tiny fossils reveal big insights about ant ancestors

Two tiny ant fossils recovered in southern Saskatchewan are helping scientists better understand the evolutionary history of modern ants. Ant fossils dating from 72–56 million year...

New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fo...

CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-DINOSAUR FOSSIL-FINDING (CN)

(260911) -- BEIJING, Sept. 11, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This undated file photo provided by Xing Lida, a dinosaur expert from China University of Geosciences (Beijing), shows a dinosaur fo...

10,000-Year-Old Fossilized Mastodon Tooth Found in California Creek Is in "Immaculate Condition"

​Learn more about a fossilized mastodon tooth that was originally mistaken for an oddly shaped rock. 

Mastodon Announce Marrow Deep Vinyl Pressed with Real Mastodon Fossils

The vinyl featuring real crushed fossils is set to a very understandably limited 170 copies. Mastodon Announce Marrow Deep Vinyl Pressed with Real Mastodon Fossils Langdon Hickman