Pterosaurs and Archaeopteryx took to the skies, but there was trouble in this Jurassic paradise: Tropical storms would turn ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fossils are everywhere in Kansas but there are some places where your chances of finding a link to the past are greater than others. The Sunflower State is home to numerous types of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With flashlights in hand, sisters MariaElena and Penelope Donahue entered the opening of a mountain cave in ...

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Another new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park.According to a post from the park, an ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species while ...

IN 1849, having traversed the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Sikkim Himalaya, Joseph Hooker, discovered a limestone containing fragmentary organic remains. The fossils were thought to be ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

In preparation for Lake Monroe's 60th anniversary, Indiana Department of Natural Resources interpretive naturalist Jill Vance researched the history of the lake and the people who lived in the area ...

Devonian massive graphitic marble and calc-silicate schist, belonging to the Lower Formation of the Nevado-Filábride Complex of the Internal Zones of the Betic Cordillera, crop out extensively near ...