Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...
Jasmina Wiemann wanted to be a paleontologist before she could even pronounce the word. "I was a weird kid," she says. Growing up in the countryside outside of Bonn, Germany, she collected tokens of ...
The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during the ...