Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

A dull brown disk of rock the size of a jelly doughnut that was plucked from the desert 20 miles west of the Strip is being hailed as the oldest fossil of a land animal ever found in Nevada. Now ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new ...

Dancing paleontologists, colourful graphics, and unashamed catchiness make Fossil Rock Anthem one of my favourite scientific parody songs. Even better, it’s educational effectiveness is backed by ...

(CNN) — A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian ...

A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian Alps in ...

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