The stunning limestone walls and floors that are a hallmark of Asia Society Texas Center's architecture are also home to fossils dating to the Jurassic era. Learn about some of the different types of ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio The same forces that cause volcanoes, mountains, and ocean basins also cause climatic changes that have ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: The attached video above is from a story about Fossil Park that aired on Aug. 5, 2021. Ohio has a rich and fascinating history. In northwest Ohio alone, historical ...

(Reuters) - A fossil jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore on Scotland's Isle of Skye led scientists to discover the skeleton of a pterosaur that showed that these remarkable flying reptiles ...

When you get to the Grand Canyon and gaze out at the incomprehensibly large sight in front of you, you might not even notice the life right beneath your feet. When you stand on the rim of the canyon, ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

Excavated from a hayfield near Warrensburg, Fossil Pond and its limestone evoke an age 300 million years ago when a vast sea covered much of the Midwest, including Kansas City. Gary Rhoades From a ...

Late one night last September, I received a phone call from a stranger. The man, the owner of a stone-cutting workshop near Cairo, told me he had seen something strange—some kind of fossil—while ...

Donald G. MacVicar Jr., 21-year-old Amherst senior and chemistry major, got the idea in a college bull session. After he tested it in the laboratory, MacVicar decided he had the answer to a problem ...

Learn about Earth’s history with five fossils that have stories to tell Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Though massive creatures may look like a dinosaur, the Dimetrodon lived 50 million years before ...