Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

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Something that is only a blot in a slab of Silurian rock may still contain the map of an eye to where a nerve once led. A ...

February 1, 1927 - Morrill Hall opened on Feb. 1, 1927 under the direction of Erwin H. Barbour.

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

A 512-million-year-old ecosystem, frozen in stone, reveals an explosive comeback after a mass extinction no one fully understood, until now.

Jake Sawin said he was “living the dream” by helping prepare dinosaur fossils to be exhibited at the Putnam Museum in Davenport.

Discover the Lizzadro Museum in Illinois, where jade glows, agates tell stories, and minerals reveal their ancient secrets. A rock lover's dream come true!

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

After the roughly 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Calling aspiring paleontologists! A paid summer internship at Agate Fossil Beds and Scotts Bluff offers real-world experience ...