Beneath the rocks of Australia, microscopic fossils dating back 3.45 billion years reveal what the most primitive life might ...

Florida isn't typically known for cool gems/minerals, but the Sunshine State definitely has its fair share of impressive ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

Stone tools found with a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy from Northern Italy reveal how alpine Copper Age communities lived, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ursula ...

The 33-year-old from Carbon County uses shoots from dogwood trees to make his arrow shafts. He finds chert rocks in the ...

MBABANE – About 3 500 people will be directly and indirectly employed at the green chert mine beneficiation factory at Nkomazi, northern Hhohho. A beneficiation factory, or beneficiation plant, is a ...

Wanhi Yukan Trail at the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry in southern Minnesota is one of the state's newest trails. It explores an ancient quarry site with thousands of years of history. 6 Minnesota Tourist ...

Visitors to an archeological site in Grand Meadow, a rural town in southern Minnesota pause to read a sign along the Wanhi Yukan Trail on July 7. The archeological record shows Indigenous have ...

It has been a long time coming, but on Saturday those behind the development of the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry Preserve and Wanhi Yukan Trail can celebrate the finish line. It has been a long time ...

GRAND MEADOW, MINN. – An ancient Dakota quarry is about to become a new privately maintained trail in southeast Minnesota. The Grand Meadow Chert Quarry, or the Wahni Yukan in Dakota — so named for ...

The chert quarry will open for tours at the beginning of July. Surveying is planned with radar devices to search for new discoveries. More than 70 years after the local landowner questioned what the ...

Early diagenetic chert serves as a critical archive of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms of chert formation and diagenesis remain uncertain. The present research deciphers chert formation and ...