This is a new field trip to a sand pit near Shoofly that contains small fossils and petrified wood from ancient Lake ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

Following the last two years, the Lapworth Museum of Geology is proud to once again celebrate International Women's Day with ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

The ancient life of New York is being featured at the Buffalo Geological Society’s 56th annual Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show on March 14-15 at the Erie County Fairgrounds in the Grange, Market Place ...

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

The poodle-sized reptile that lived over 200 million years ago was among creatures that had features similar to dinosaurs it ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

This new series of photographs captures the vastness of Earth in ancient rock formations, natural weathering, tiny crystals, coastlines and gems of amber. But it’s also about the traces of family ...