Shutterstock For fossil hunters, locating a well-preserved animal is always exciting, and that was certainly the case when ...

As a teen, road trips to Dorset meant three things: Moores biscuits, swimming at the Durdle Door arch, and fossil hunting. We visited the seaside towns of Lyme Regis and Charmouth for exquisite fish ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. - The discovery of a monster's rare tooth, not seen in millions of years, was made last weekend in South Carolina. A family from Florida unearthed the exciting find – a massive ...

Did you know there are hidden fossils from the time of the dinosaurs buried at the Smithsonian National Zoo? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax slithered over to the zoo — ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable tubes floating around him, fossil and treasure hunter Matthew Mitchell held up a mastodon tooth — a ...

An amateur fossil hunter found a mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek. Experts said it was the first mammoth tusk found in the state. Mammoth tusks can offer unique insight into their lives, including ...

Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they uncovered the fossilized remains of a partial vertebral column in Western India.

The odds of two strangers finding different halves of the same ancient megalodon tooth would seem astronomical, and yet it recently happened in South Carolina’s coastal Lowcountry. Stranger still, the ...