A new exhibit at the MassArt Art Museum in Boston explores the future by examining the present. For their "Future Fossils" exhibition, the museum asked artists to imagine what people in the future ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Preparing fossils is a mixture of skill, science and art. By knowing how and when to use certain tools and techniques, fossil preparators make vital contributions to science, revealing information ...

Right outside the brand new state-of-the-art museum is a quarry ... Behind a Lowe's parking lot is a fertile ground for fossils which are 60+ million years old. It's now preserved and used ...

The fossil she’s working on is that of a massive ancient amphibian that looks like a dinosaur called Eryops. Though its appearance would suggest it’s related to Spinosaurus or a Komodo Dragon ...

Ric Edelman, left, whose donation helped build the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, looks up at a re-creation of a baby hadrosaur in one of the exhibits.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times ...