South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, suggesting that they were not just passive settlers but active fossil hunters.

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge—a type of small fly—from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Louise Reily / Australian Museum Amateur ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton came across the discovery of a lifetime on the bank of a creek ...

One of the world’s top insect fossil beds, which has suffered extensive damage as a result of commercial fossil hunting, will be somewhat better protected due to recent efforts by the Province of ...

Amateur fossil hunters discovered a trackway left by a creature that might have looked like the one in this illustration. The finding raises new questions about the evolution of the earliest reptiles.

The Atlas Mountains of Morocco are famous for their rich fossil deposits, making them a perfect spot for amateur ...