This short YouTube documentary chronicles the career of Dr. Fiann Smithwick, a paleontologist whose career was sparked by a chance childhood encounter. Now, he walks Britain’s Jurassic Coast with his ...

What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, and has the answers.

This documentary uncovers the rise of Dromaeosaurs, the swift and intelligent raptors that reshaped the predator landscape of the Mesozoic. Paleontologists reveal how their agility, feathers, and ...

BALTIMORE (WMAR) — If you didn’t know that you can hunt, find, and keep fossils in Maryland, then there’s a woman from Baltimore County that wants to educate you. For Felicia Ludwig, the founder of ...

In this photograph, taken near Weymouth in southwest England, on the Jurassic Coast, I’m handling a 153-million-year-old Pliosaurus kevani vertebra. This is a large piece, but many of the fossils I ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far ...