Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

Imagine a world where dragonflies with wingspans rivaling that of a hawk darted through ancient forests, and millipedes as ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and ...

Revolutionizing History with Illinois’s Carboniferous Creatures Carboniferous Period. Image via Openverse. Fossils discovered in Illinois, spanning the late Carboniferous period, illuminate ...

More research into Prototaxites fossils needs to be done to determine if they were fungi or a completely different type of life, and what caused them to go extinct millions of years ago.

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He enjoys visiting the La Brea Tar Pits, so he can watch the paleontologists through the glass windows, working in the Fossil Lab and imagining himself there one day. Today, he asked me, “Is there a ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...