Crinoids are marine animals and an ancient fossil group that first appeared about 300 million years before dinosaurs, according to the British Geological Survey. They flourished in the Palaeozoic and ...

Researchers have discovered geometric, hollow, ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils of bizarre marine animals. Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the ...

The Eastern goldfinch is Iowa's state bird, and the wild rose is the state flower. Iowa's official rock is the geode, and the oak is the state tree. Now a group of seven Democrats in the Iowa Senate ...

When soldiers were digging trenches in World War I, they had no idea they would be exposing rock that would tell us about the evolution of life on Earth. But in the Austrian Alps, those trenches ...

In a sense, seeing a T. rex walking the streets of Des Moines would seem less bizarre than seeing that same T. rex fighting a Stegosaurus. “Dinosaurs were around for an incredibly long amount of time, ...

Iowa does have a state bird (Eastern Goldfinch) and a state flower (wild rose), but it is one of seven states not to have a state fossil, despite the state’s rich fossil history. The University of ...

The Museum holds many items, large and small, that have contributed to the history of Vigo County. While most of them owe their existence to man and his creative mind, some do not. In a corner exhibit ...

La variante de covid NB.1.8.1 presenta mutaciones específicas que podrían aumentar su capacidad de transmisión y disminuir parcialmente la eficacia neutralizante de ciertos anticuerpos. Software ...

The pebbles are prettier on the other side of Lake Michigan. Even amateur beachcombers know that the Dunes-area shoreline of Indiana and Michigan yields better rocks than Chicago’s gravelly man-made ...

A collector is suing a New York gem shop after the crinoid fossil he purchased broke during shipping. Bryan Miller A fossil collector who purchased a dazzling 500 million year old relic from a Fifth ...

The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...