More than 1,000 people, many of them under 10 years old, descended into a mining pit in southern New Jersey on Saturday for a once-a-year chance to dig up some fossils from the age of the dinosaurs.

Walk into Christian Kaleta’s Mesa store, and you’ll be greeted by a sight you won’t find anywhere else in the retail world: Stan the Tyrannosaurus Rex, aka T. Rex, a $20,000 dinosaur skull replica.

Local kids displayed their love for prehistoric history by setting up what looks like a miniature Smithsonian museum in a Canandaigua backyard garage. Twins Devon and Ian Underwood, 14, became ...

Gina Wysocki was bitten by the fossil-hunting bug when she was 9 years old and found a trilobite fossil while on a picnic. Now director of Dig Into the Experience, a fossil hunting tour program, she ...

The Lowcountry is rich in fossils just waiting to be found. The most commonly found fossils are probably shark teeth, which are often found along many of our South Carolina beaches. But, beaches ...

Area elementary students this past week learned a little about the study of prehistoric life, digging in a re-created excavation site and examining animal fossils at the Illinois State Museum. The ...

Parents, take a break from online schooling and go “old school” — “old” as in prehistoric times with Fossil Posse Adventures. Fossil Posse Adventures in Wolcott, created by longtime locals Billy and ...

OXFORD -- Kids age 6 to 12 are invited to participate in a free Indoor Fossil Hunting program at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 at the Pequest Trout Hatchery and Natural Education Center. Wildlife ...

Someone still reveling in single-digit birthdays might have trouble relating to the age of things at the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. There’s a 14,000-year-old juniper tree that’s ...

GRAY, Tenn. - Dozens of kids are helping paleontologists dig up fossils this month. It is all part of the Paleo Summer Camp at the Gray Fossil Site. The week-long camp is being held all this month for ...

CHOWCHILLA — If you’re a dinosaur or Ice Age fossil buff, you may have heard the story. If not, prepare to be amazed. In 1993, a sanitation crew working on an expansion project at the Fairmead ...

What does Glossopteris mean and why do researchers care about Glossopteris fossils? The extensive range of these fossilized leaves shed light on plate tectonics and continental drift theory. Fossils ...