October 14th is National Fossil Day. And while fossils are often associated with a big archaeological dig or a faraway discovery, the truth is that fossils can be found where you least expect them.

BALTIMORE (WMAR) — If you didn’t know that you can hunt, find, and keep fossils in Maryland, then there’s a woman from Baltimore County that wants to educate you. For Felicia Ludwig, the founder of ...

An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ...

"The mammoth itself would have looked like a much bigger version of a modern-day elephant — up to 13 feet tall, and weighing 14 tons," noted the Peterborough Telegraph. Jordan, who reportedly found ...

In 1811, a 12-year-old girl named Mary Anning discovered a fossil on the beach near her home in southwestern England – the first scientifically identified specimen of an ichthyosaur, a dolphinlike, ...