Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 ... for tasks such as butchering and digging out tubers, says Jackson ...

Before you can start your fossil hunt, you'll need a shovel. In Animal Crossing, the shovel is more than just a digging tool.

Once closer to the bone bed, palaeontologists switch to smaller tools such as trowels ... as well as trace fossils such as coprolites or trackways. Usually a dig isn't just spent getting the dinosaurs ...

On Saturday August 25 the WNY community is invited to take part in the World’s Largest Fossil Dig at Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve. Penn Dixie is hoping to break the Guinness World ...