Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Finding seashell fossils far from any coastline raises obvious questions. The answer takes us back millions of years, when entire regions sat beneath ancient oceans. Through tectonic uplift and ...

Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...

Florida’s 30A scenic coastal drive is no secret, and towns like Seaside, Alys Beach, and Rosemary Beach are well known spring break escapes. But there are stops along this coastal road that aren’t as ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Sarasota Shell Club will host its expanded 2026 Sarasota Shell and Marine Life Festival on Friday ...

In a quarry nestled in the hills of southern China, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil bed unlike any previously found from its time. The discovery, quietly developing over the past five years, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Where do seashells come from? – Ivy, age 5, ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in competitive head bashing. By Jack Tamisiea Head-butting was all the rage at the end ...

An illustration of a member of the Prototaxites genus, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios In 1843, Canadian geologist William Edmond Logan ...

In a new paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged reported the discovery of the first Paranthropus specimen from the Afar region of ...

Three local authority pension funds have joined an international coalition of investors to file fossil fuel-related shareholder resolutions at oil giants BP and Shell. Lothian Pension Fund, Falkirk ...