Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

New discoveries of small animals that lived more than 200 million years ago are changing how paleontologists think about ...

In a state known for its basketball, racing, and cornfields, Falls of the Ohio stands as Indiana’s most overlooked natural wonder – a place where you can literally touch the distant past while ...

There are some older fossils attributed to these types of worms. Rocks about 400 million years old in Ontario, Canada, contain signs of worms behaving similar to sand strikers today. However ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

Ancient seashell fossils discovered in the southern province of Surat Thani are Thailand’s latest paleontological discovery. The fossils were discovered at four separate locations around Ban ...

It’s one of more than 70,000 fossils found at the Abocador de Can Mata, a landfill near Barcelona that’s a paleontologists’ paradise. Fewer places are less welcoming than a garbage dump on a ...

Bill Hatcher Megan Hormell discovers a bighorn sheep scapula, most likely broken by the weight of the rocks under which these fossils have been resting for tens of thousands of years. Bill Hatcher ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne.

Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin all feature ancient rocks known as gneisses — metamorphic rocks banded with various minerals — but an analysis determined that the gneiss in northern Michigan ...