Fossil hunter Alan Detrich, Overbrook, is pictured with a 17-foot Mosasaur, he discovered several years ago in Gove County, Kansas. Detrich, who has uncovered various dinosaur fossils says it took ...

Over the years, men and women slowly became more equal, and I became celebrated as one of the greatest fossil hunters that ever lived. Mary Anning was born on 21 May 1799. She lived in the English ...

We spoke to Jack Wonfor from Wight Coast Fossils on the Isle of Wight to find out everything you need to know as a first-time fossil hunter on the island. How to get started Choosing the right ...

An amateur fossil hunter discovered the first Columbian mammoth tusk ever found in Mississippi. The 7-foot-long, fully intact tusk was tucked into a bluff near a stream that may have swept away ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link ...

The fossil hunter lived in Lyme Regis, part of what is now called the Jurassic Coast, and began searching the coastline as a child. She was the first person to discover a complete plesiosaurus ...

And the gold color isn't just for show. The pyrite, located in a fossil-rich area near Rome, New York, known as "Beecher's Bed," helped to preserve the fossils by gradually taking the place of ...

A dinosaur bone dug up on the site of a new development was probably part of an ancient Roman fossil hunter's collection, archaeologists said. The vertebra from a plesiosaur, a "sea creature" that ...

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset's coastline. Fossil collector Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the early 1800s. She is remembered for making ...