Category: Archaeologists

Imagine walking along a beach and stumbling across a piece of rock — only to discover that hidden inside was the fossil of the largest-known invertebrate ever to live on Earth. That is exactly what happened at Howick Bay in Northumberland, England, in January 2018. A chunk of sandstone had fallen from a nearby cliff…

Imagine looking up into the prehistoric sky and seeing an insect with a wingspan of 2.5 feet flying overhead. It sounds impossible today — but around 275 million years ago, a giant dragonfly-like predator called Meganeuropsis permiana really did take to the skies. The enormous insect lived during the late Permian Period, roughly 45 million…

A Colorado high school teacher searching for fossils in North Dakota made an astonishing discovery that may have captured the movements of one of the world’s most famous predators 66.5 million years ago. Kent Hups was volunteering on a paleontological dig in the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota in 2025 when he spotted…

A mysterious prehistoric “thunder beast” may have been hiding 12 feet beneath a Southern California construction site for as long as 45 million years. The remarkable fossil discovery was made this month in Oceanside, around 40 miles north of San Diego, when crews excavating for a city infrastructure project unexpectedly encountered ancient bones. Among the…

An eerie Ice Age graveyard containing the remains of hundreds of giant mammoths has been uncovered beneath the site of a new airport in Mexico. Archaeologists working north of Mexico City have unearthed around 200 mammoth skeletons, with many more believed to remain buried beneath the ground. The extraordinary concentration of fossils has transformed the…

A mammoth that was hunted and butchered 45,000 years ago has revealed astonishing evidence that humans were living and hunting in the Arctic thousands of years earlier than previously known. The remains were discovered in the far north of Russia, near the Kara Sea, where the harsh landscape would have presented enormous challenges to any…

A woolly mammoth that died nearly 39,000 years ago has been preserved so remarkably well that scientists were able to recover blood and muscle samples from her ancient body. The female mammoth, named Yuka, was discovered frozen in ice on an island near Siberia after becoming trapped in the frozen ground. Her body was found…

A baby woolly mammoth that died more than 30,000 years ago has been unearthed from the frozen ground of Canada’s Yukon — and its body is so remarkably preserved that scientists can still see its hair, skin and tiny toenails. Miners excavating permafrost in the Klondike gold fields made the extraordinary discovery at Eureka Creek,…

A remarkably preserved teenage Tyrannosaurus rex that died around 66.5 million years ago is giving scientists a rare glimpse into what the fearsome predator looked like before reaching adulthood. The fossil was discovered in North Dakota’s famous Hell Creek Formation by an unlikely team — three children and their father. What they found would eventually…

A remarkably complete young Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana could help solve one of paleontology’s most intriguing mysteries: what did the world’s most famous predator look like before it became a giant? The dinosaur died around 66.5 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period. Its remains were discovered by researchers from the…