What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, and has the answers.

Earlier this summer, on a family vacation to visit some family in Fernandina Beach, Fla., I rediscovered one of my first loves: looking for fossils. It turns out that area is well-known for finding ...

From fossils to the island’s colorful past, discover why Sucia is a gem of the Pacific Northwest. Sponsored: Join Northwest Explorer aboard the historic David B as we sail into the heart of the San ...

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 ...

Under McFetridge Drive in Chicago, two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides open a handmade wooden drawer. There are thousands of such drawers that ...

While hiking through the fossil-rich terrain of North Dakota, three children made a discovery that paleontologists are calling one of the rarest in recent memory — the skeleton of an adolescent ...