A 93-pound Petoskey stone found in Lake Michigan was later confiscated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources 10 years ago. It is now on display at the DNR's Outdoor Adventure Center, 1801 ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record ...

The team led by the University of Cambridge published their study in the journal Nature and thought that the new fossil could attest to why birds survived the mass extinction event at the end of ...

The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the dissolved calcium carbonate in the seawater to form internal skeletons ...

Fast forward to today, the U.K., with its iconic limestone cliffs, is considered one of the most exciting places to hunt for prehistoric fossils in Europe. Recently, the British train company ...

Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment build up on top of one another, they create a physical timeline. The oldest layers, ...

Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

The specimen in question is an exquisite fossil of a gossamer-winged butterfly from the Isle of Wight. It is the only representative of its species ever found. Discovered in the Insect Limestone at ...