Many Native American peoples believe it is bad luck to uncover fossils from their place of burial.

His work primarily focuses on fossils from the Cretaceous period of Madagascar, and he often travels to the island to uncover new fossils.

They also uncovered fossils from fish, crabs, coelacanth and crocodile-like species.

Explorations of Mars - relatively dry now but wet long ago, scientists believe - are considered more likely to uncover fossils than extant forms.

The museum staff cleverly simulated the delicate process of uncovering fossils by scattering dry rice over the cast and providing two soft brushes.

In the early 20th century, workers at limestone quarries in southern Africa routinely uncovered fossils from the tufa formations they mined.

For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominins.

The site was retained for some years in the expectation that erosion would uncover new fossils.

Later, in 1838, The St. Louis Museum's Albert Koch uncovered fossils east of the Osage River that would later be identified as belonging to the ground sloth Mylodon.

During the late 1930's geologist Bien Meinian began to uncover fossils at Shawan near Lufeng in Yunnan province.