“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Megalodon shark teeth, Neolithic arrow heads, mammoth bones and bird fossils are just some of the great discoveries made in Walton!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charmouth, on the Jurassic Coast, is a hotbed for fossil hunters [Getty Images] After weeks of wet weather, fossil hunters are ...

There have been a number of landslides along the Dorset coast in recent months due to wet weather.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Discover Weymouth’s prehistoric past at the ‘Look What I Found!’ exhibition, running from March 6 to May 31 at the , ...

Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is asking people to stay far away from cliff edges.

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop has been around since 1970, but the contents of its basement have witnessed all of human history and another three billion years beyond that. Featuring gemstones, ...