It's extremely rare to find a complete skeleton of a dinosaur. It's rarer still that such a skeleton needs to be found twice. Such is the fate of "Stan" the T. rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils and other ancient artifacts ...

“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 ...