Unexpectedly the hammering led him to a small animal skull possibly belonging to a group of primitive creatures. Experts later realized that the creature had gotten caught in the rock while ...

“I was a little bit sad,” said Rossi, 34. While fossil misidentifications and forgeries are rare, this isn’t the first time scientists have encountered an overhyped rock. In 2019, a fossil ...

Evidence for early forms of life comes from fossils. By studying fossils, scientists can learn how much (or how little) organisms have changed as life developed on Earth. There are gaps in the ...

They know they can make many times that amount by selling just one prized fossil on the black market. Even if recovered, illegally removed fossils have diminished scientific value, says Xu Xing of ...