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Fossil hunting at Cocklawburn Beach
The first of this year’s geo-walks on the Northumberland Coast National Landscape will be on Tuesday 29th April starting at ...
Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...
Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...
There are around 800 extant species and the group has a long and detailed fossil record stretching back about 450 ... the others being holothurians, crinoids, starfish and brittlestars. Like all ...
There's a place in Arkansas where time seems to slow down and the modern world fades away – Devil's Den State Park in West Fork, a geological marvel nestled in the Boston Mountains that somehow ...
Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the fossilized Capitan Reef now forms craggy peaks and iconic cliffs like El ...
Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it wasn’t an ordinary fossil. This particular find shimmered with the ...
Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated ...
Fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach discovered the specimen on the Gaviota Coast in February last year, and alerted the museum to its presence. According to museum staff, the fossil is ...
The National Park Service (NPS) called the paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument "groundbreaking," as it gives an idea of what the long-extinct animals lived like in ...