Articles for category: Fossils & Fieldwork

Unearthing Giants: 8 Incredible Dinosaur Skeletons Found in North America

Unearthing Giants: 8 Incredible Dinosaur Skeletons Found in North America

There is something almost supernatural about pulling a 70-million-year-old creature out of the earth. The bones are still there. The story is still waiting. North America, it turns out, has been hiding some of the most extraordinary prehistoric giants ever discovered, buried beneath badlands, ranches, river bluffs, and canyon walls from South Dakota to New ...

Digging Up the Past: 5 Incredible Fossil Finds From US Deserts

Digging Up the Past: 5 Incredible Fossil Finds From US Deserts

You might think of US deserts as empty, scorched wastelands where nothing much happens. Honestly, that’s exactly what makes what’s hidden beneath them so jaw-dropping. Beneath the cracked earth and drifting sands of the American West, some of the most significant paleontological discoveries in human history have been quietly waiting – sometimes for over 200 ...