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03/06/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Couple finds massive mammoth tooth beside a broken pot in the garden of their new cottage in the UK

A retired couple in the British county of Devon, located in southwestern England, have accidentally discovered an enormous mammoth tooth right next to a broken plant pot in their garden. The tooth, which was identified as a molar, weighed 12 lbs and was 15 inches long. It was found by Stephen and Stella Huyshe-Shires in November of 2018 when […]

03/06/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Construction site turned dinosaur dig: Workers unearth 68-million-year-old Triceratops fossil

What started out as a simple construction job turned into a mission to find, document and retrieve the remains of a prehistoric giant. Builders tasked with excavating a site near a retirement community in Denver, Colorado, stumbled upon a partial skeleton, which was later identified by paleontologists as that of a large adult Triceratops. According […]

02/29/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

A welcome surprise: Miners digging for gemstones unearth fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster instead

In June of 2019, miners employed by Enchanted Designs Limited were busy at work in Alberta, Canada looking for ammolite, a rainbow-colored gemstone used in luxury jewelry, when they instead found something arguably much more valuable. They found the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster that lived about 70 million years ago during the age of […]

02/23/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

10,000 year old “weapons factory” discovered by archeologists alongside remains of a wooly mammoth, whose tusks were used as raw materials

Paleontologists working on the island of Kotelny, a now-uninhabited Siberian island administered by Russia and located within the Arctic circle, have discovered a “weapons factory” where early humans took shards of mammoth tusks and sharpened them into knives and spears. Not only that, but this “weapons factory” was discovered right beside the remains of a felled […]

02/22/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Jaws on the beachfront: North Carolina man finds palm-sized MEGALODON tooth buried on the shore

A typical beach stroll usually ends with someone finding a few pretty seashells, coral fragments and colorful beach glass. One man, however, found something prehistoric after going on what was supposed to be an ordinary beach stroll with his family. According to Harvey Wall, he and his family were looking for seashells when he spotted […]

12/26/2019 / By Michael Alexander

A jaw-dropping find: High schooler from Iowa discovers a prehistoric mastodon jaw bone

Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the fossil, the […]

11/30/2019 / By Tracey Watson

“Thai”–rannosaurus rex? Fossils unearthed in Thailand reveal link to fearsome therapod

Dinosaur fans everywhere have a new reason to rejoice: the discovery of two brand new dinosaur species in Thailand. And the best part? They’re both distant cousins of that favorite of all dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex. The fossils of the two new species lay forgotten for decades after being discovered back in 1988 and 1993, respectively. […]

10/25/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Unearthing the prehistoric past of Texas – animals thought “Old World” found to have roamed it 12 million years ago

Millions of years ago, Texas supported large populations of prehistoric antelopes, camels, elephants, horses, and rhinos. Its rich selection of fauna matched those found in the Serengeti, the vast ecosystem of Africa that brims with wildlife. The fossil evidence for the “Texas Serengeti” first emerged during the Great Depression. Local workers hauled thousands of specimens […]

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