The discovery of these jaws with blunt, mushroom-shaped teeth reveals how this Late Cretaceous predator specialized in crushing shells.

So it’s famous but rare, and this fossil really is a crown-jewel type of skeleton. KATHLEEN DAVIS: So how has this sale of fossils evolved over time? I mean, is this kind of a newer concept, or is ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

Dinosaur bones are certainly rare and rawr, making the Natural History Museum 's annual Dino Fest a treat for devotees of the ...

First, it's rare — "we don't really have a whole lot of these animals represented in our fossil record," Starnes said. And second, it's nearly complete, including the tusk's tip. The fact that ...

Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...

But new research on a fossil found almost 50 years ago provides a rare glimpse at the deep roots of that behaviour. "We expect this out of mammals, of course, but we don't go looking for it in the ...

It's believed that as few as 100 of these coins remain. The post Rare 1776 coin discovered in toffee tin up for auction ...

When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long ... which is pretty rare." Last month, Couey and Aguzzi were on ...

Fossils can be found in surprising places and they can tell us about the past. We call all of the fossils we have found the fossil record. This record shows us how living things have changed from ...

CT scans of the fossils provided a rare glimpse inside the wing bones belonging to two species of pterosaurs, including one new to science. The results of the research, published Friday in the ...

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