“That means, if you find a fossil, you’re not its owner, so that’s why you’re not allowed to sell it, because it’s not up for you to decide.” But Morocco seems to fall into a sort of legal gray area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil that writer Jacopo Prisco ordered online. - Toby Hancock/CNN It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

But some obvious cracks that suggested the specimen had perhaps been patched together from multiple fragments left me wondering: Was it real? To find out, I took it to London’s Natural History Museum, ...