As a recently discovered fossil breaks auction records, read on to discover the stories behind 12 dinosaur finds that sold for staggering sums. All dollar amounts in US dollars ...

prosaically known as Fossil Lake, for more than 40 years. He usually spends a few weeks each summer mining privately held land leased by the Tynskys. The most scientifically valuable finds return ...

The least valuable are ground into powder for ... compete in New York and California auction houses for the most eye-popping specimens. Such fossils often end up in the oceanfront great rooms ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery ... that have ever lived has been preserved as fossils. After death, most primate bodies are eventually dismantled and devoured by predators ...

"Diatryma was probably a rare guest in the Geisetal. Otherwise, there would probably be more fossils," concludes Stache. More information: Gerald Mayr et al, Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma ...

The fossils included a part of the base of the skull, parts of the shoulder and front flipper, as well as a complete left pelvis and most of a hind flipper. Many vertebrae and flipper bones were ...

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 recent excavation from April to November 2024 uncovered 11 more human fossils, including a rare metatarsal bone and ... called the site "one of the most significant discoveries in human ...

Do all living things turn into a fossil once they die? No! Very few things do. A specific set of circumstances and conditions are needed for fossilisation to occur, so it is actually a very rare event ...

The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same genus as modern rusty-spotted cats, which are among the smallest felines in the world. Catherine Gugelmann / AFP via Getty Images ...