The distribution of fossils on the landscape is determined by the particular environmental and depositional conditions present when the bones were deposited and fossilized. Fossil collecting is ...

The movement of Earth’s continents has influenced the distribution and evolution of species. For instance, fossils of the plant Glossopteris found across South America, Africa, India ...

Workers at Zoic, a fossil restoration firm in Trieste, Italy, reassemble an Allosaurus unearthed in Wyoming. The specimen later sold at auction in Paris for $1.4 million. Like a prehistoric nod to ...

“With the dating, we wanted to better understand the distribution of ancient megafauna ... Previous research has noted other megafauna fossils around 6,000 and 5,000 years old in the American ...