Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how scientists use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

HAVERHILL — Children gathered at Haverhill Public Library last week to make their own fossils using water, salt and flour. The interactive offering is one of many on the library’s calendar. Painting ...

Gina Wysocki was bitten by the fossil-hunting bug when she was 9 years old and found a trilobite fossil while on a picnic. Now director of Dig Into the Experience, a fossil hunting tour program, she ...

Someone still reveling in single-digit birthdays might have trouble relating to the age of things at the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. There’s a 14,000-year-old juniper tree that’s ...

Christine Wusylko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Pavlo Antonenko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Most kids have a natural ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...