Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

But the most detailed digital data can actually be better than a real fossil. Prof Emily Rayfield at the University of Bristol uses CT scans of dinosaur skulls and other bones to build computer ...

It should go without saying, though, that Godzilla doesn't resemble any real fossils that paleontologists have found. Godzilla was created in 1954, debuting in his first movie that year (directed ...

In this activity, your class will think like a palaeontologist and compare their own bodies to one of Mary Anning’s real fossil finds. This simple scientific activity is a good complement to learning ...

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient creatures, forgotten about by the world, hidden in rocks under our feet. My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and ...

This ingenious “scrapbook” about fossils, written by American palaeontologist Atwater, is being published with “real” fossils embedded into the pages for readers to touch and feel.

Using scale models of real fossils, for the first time, they will be able to test hypotheses about how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals moved and lived in their environments. An original ...

Kids of all ages will be able to hold real fossils and chat to dino experts as University College Cork (UCC) holds a special 'Fossil Expo' this week. The Fossil Expo will run from 4pm to 7pm on ...