Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

A professor is taking his university to court after his lifelong work vanished into a landfill, allegedly because of them.

Collectors want quantity; they want quality; they want something no one else has. And their fervor to discover has driven prices and egos sky-high in today’s commercial fossil market.

In June 2024, paleontologist Martin Becker of New Jersey's William Paterson University packed up his life's work, a priceless ...

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...

The lawsuit alleges that William Paterson University's unpaid invoices led to around 200 marine fossils being discarded in ...

THE year is 1992 and a rare fossil collection is featured in Taunton at the Somerset Museum. Multiple artefacts including bones of woolly rhinoceroses, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and cave lions and ...

Keep track of time in the Overworld with digital-inspired dials, leather wallets and beaded bracelets featuring Creepers, Diamond Ore and more.

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...