Some professional paleontologists are welcoming new federal rules that they hope will better protect fossil resources on public lands, including locally, by detailing things such as when casual ...

Fossil hunters will be able to collect certain fossils from some public lands without permits. It took some 13 years of bureaucratic sifting, but the Interior Department today finally completed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up, Danny Case became interested in fossils through his father, an amateur paleontologist. Starting at age 10, he says he ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fund. The past can inform the present in more ways than one. Take the case of the 23-million-year-old whale fossil recently ...