Sul Ross State University geology students collected a giant Alamosaurus vertebra from Big Bend National Park in March 2025.

Today, fossils feel almost self-explanatory. You see a tooth, a shell, or a skeleton in a museum case and instinctively treat it as evidence of ancient life, preserved over immense spans of time. That ...

Global Health | NPR How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing ...

Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — Fossil finding tours have returned at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site. This is your opportunity ...

Lazarus Kgasi walks with ease across a gently rolling landscape about an hour's drive outside of Pretoria, South Africa. A few trees are sprinkled here and there but it's mostly grass. Kgasi, a tall ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the... How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the ...