And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered it. For decorum’s sake, we had now ...

A local amateur fossil hunter made the find on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke found some unusual fragments, which turned out to ...

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The fossil was first found in the quarry pit at Swindon Brick and Tile Company in 1874, a site now occupied by Halford's and The Range on Fleming Way. While most of the Swindon Stegosaur remains ...

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But in 1944, the fossils’ fortunes changed when Allied bombers demolished a swath of Munich that included the Old Academy, which housed the fossil collection. The fossils were destroyed, ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil hunting. Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach ...

This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare." Dinosaur Provincial Park has produced some of the most important dinosaur fossil discoveries ever made. The punctured vertebra belongs to a ...