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 ...

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 ...

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.

This short YouTube documentary chronicles the career of Dr. Fiann Smithwick, a paleontologist whose career was sparked by a chance childhood encounter. Now, he walks Britain’s Jurassic Coast with his ...

Molly Sampson, age nine, knew exactly what she wanted for Christmas this past December: a pair of insulated wading boots. With the boots, she told her mom, she could go out into the water at Calvert ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – On this episode of Get 2 Know, hosted by Rob Fowler, we sit down with Casey Garvin with Foxy Fossils. Garvin is the founder, fossil finder, and designer behind Foxy Fossils ...

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