The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a ...

In December 2024, researchers published a paper in Paelontologia Electronica detailing an incredible fossil discovery — the 45-million-year-old skull of a Diatryma, a genus of giant flightless bird.

Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over millions of years. When most organisms die, their tissues are exposed to the ...

“This specimen — you have it illegally.” A fossil craze Last year, a Stegosaurus skeleton nicknamed “Apex,” measuring nearly 27 feet long (about 8 meters), sold for $44.6 million at a Sotheby’s ...

But it turns out my fossil wasn’t as rare as I thought. “This is almost certainly from Morocco, because almost all Spinosaurus fossils that we know of are from the Kem Kem formation of Morocco, and ...