GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable tubes floating around him, fossil and treasure hunter Matthew Mitchell held up a mastodon tooth — a ...

Those who know a lot about fossils are likely already familiar with the Mazon Creek fossil just outside Chicago. Those who don't know a lot about fossils and the Mazon Creek site? They soon will, ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Welcome back to the channel y'all! In this video I have the privilege of sharing my passion of fossil hunting and taking care ...

INDIANA JONES was no mere grubby excavator. An esteemed professor, he was also a looker who wore fedoras with élan. Among Americans looking to expend pent-up wanderlust and perhaps brag a little, the ...

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 ...

The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts fossil hunting events at a privately owned creek a 50-mile drive southwest from the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The hadrosaur tooth was ...

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On a summer day in July 2025, UA Museums paleontologist Dr. John Friel was scanning the gravel bars of a Greene County creek when he stumbled on an unexpected prize. Buried among the river pebbles, he ...