October 14th is National Fossil Day. And while fossils are often associated with a big archaeological dig or a faraway discovery, the truth is that fossils can be found where you least expect them.

BALTIMORE (WMAR) — If you didn’t know that you can hunt, find, and keep fossils in Maryland, then there’s a woman from Baltimore County that wants to educate you. For Felicia Ludwig, the founder of ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Paleontologist Brian Pickles was wrapping up a field course in Alberta, Canada, when he came across a curious little fossil in Dinosaur Provincial Park. BRIAN PICKLES: When we brought it back to do an ...

Three boys under the age of 10 discovered something while hiking in the North Dakota Badlands that had them “completely speechless.” What they found was a T. rex bone. Brothers Liam Fisher, then 7, ...

Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as noisy and numerous as they are, this year’s swarms represent only a fraction ...

Three boys - ages 7, 9 and 10 at the time - discovered a T. rex bone poking out of the ground while wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of North Dakota badlands, and an upcoming film this summer ...

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