A quick stop in a Kentucky creek turns into an unexpected fossil hunt, with crinoid stems, horn coral, tiny geodes, and ...

Today's photograph is for you paleo-geeks ... this nice crinoid stem is from a formation I forget the name of along the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. If you have some ...

Rockport Quarry in Alpena, Michigan, looks like a normal fossil-hunting spot until the ground starts telling a much older ...

A 'living fossil' believed to have gone extinct over 270 million years ago has been found thriving in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The strange-looking fossil is formed from the stalks of marine ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...

The Eastern goldfinch is Iowa's state bird, and the wild rose is the state flower. Iowa's official rock is the geode, and the oak is the state tree. Now a group of seven Democrats in the Iowa Senate ...