Paleontology news through a Lowcountry lens — what new discoveries mean for South Carolina fossils and the people who hunt them.
A new Australian study decodes the chemical and biological signatures underwater environments leave on bones—and there are real lessons for anyone reading fossils out of South Carolina's blackwater rivers.
Jul 28, 2026
A new Nature Reviews Biodiversity synthesis retraces how whales went from riverbank mammals to ocean apex predators. Here's how South Carolina's Oligocene beds fit into that story.
Jul 28, 2026
A beachcomber's frozen stash of southern right whale scat just rewrote what we know about baleen whale diets — and it echoes the deep-time whale story preserved in Charleston's Oligocene rock.
Jul 16, 2026
A newly named mosasaur from Texas, Tylosaurus rex, stretched some 43 feet and bore rare serrated teeth. Here is what this Cretaceous giant means for how we read South Carolina's own marine reptile record.
Jul 5, 2026
A new life-size skeleton of the dinosaur-eating crocodilian Deinosuchus schwimmeri has gone on display in Georgia. Here's what this Late Cretaceous apex predator tells us about the ancient Southeast — and how it connects to South Carolina's fossil story.
Jul 5, 2026
A superbly preserved fossil tarpon from New Zealand sat unnamed for decades until a late collector's donated field notebooks supplied the missing locality data. The story is a sharp lesson for Lowcountry fossil hunters.
Jul 5, 2026