For about half the travelers who stop in, Fossil Butte National Monument is merely a rest area on a lonely stretch of U.S.

So in the summer of 2021, Aase dropped off 5-gallon buckets at the quarries and asked diggers to toss in coprolites — the fossilized poop that is abundant at these sites. When the buckets filled, he ...

Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning found more than just extinct animals on Dorset's coastline. Fossil collector Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the early 1800s. She is remembered for making ...