Along a stretch of England’s southern shoreline, gangs of small children roam the beaches wielding hammers and searching for remains in the rocks. This is not some post-apocalyptic scene, a day at the ...

Ever since the very first dinosaur was discovered by humans and named in the early 1800s, humans have been obsessed.

Along a famed stretch of English coastline, amateurs and professionals collect 200-million-year-old treasures before they are reclaimed by the waves Tommy Trenchard, Hakai Magazine The narrow blue ...

We were only a mile into our four-day, 32-mile hike from Lyme Regis to Exmouth along the beautiful Jurassic Coast of southern England. Beneath us were the fossilized remains of sea creatures and birds ...

A fascinating new species of ichthyosaur, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has recently been described in a study published in Papers in Palaeontology. The nearly complete fossil, officially known as ...

Amateur fossil hunters have been digging at a spot near Mitchell, Oregon for years. They’ve found plenty of ammonites, and one dinosaur toe bone. A few years ago, the Bureau of Land Management granted ...

This week on Tiny Matters, we’re talking about dinosaurs: the ancient beasts that died off 65 million years ago but whose remains still captivate us today. Fossils are helping scientists piece ...