If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

A Barrackville man known to his friends and family as “Wooly Mammoth” passed away Oct. 10 at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. Emmel Ray Garton Jr. is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

Discover the Guryul Ravine in Kashmir, a national geo-heritage site with fossil records of the Permian-Triassic mass ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.

Guryul Ravine preserves invaluable 250-million-year-old fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event, offering insights ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

A new ichthyosaur species, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or 'sword dragon,' has been unearthed on the UK's Jurassic Coast. This ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

PETRIFIED FOREST — Adam Marsh and Michelle Stocker had been out all day in the hot weather, breaking rocks and sifting through the pieces, when they made a major discovery last May. “What we saw under ...