Crinoids are marine animals and an ancient fossil group that first appeared about 300 million years before dinosaurs, according to the British Geological Survey. They flourished in the Palaeozoic and ...

Iowa does have a state bird (Eastern Goldfinch) and a state flower (wild rose), but it is one of seven states not to have a state fossil, despite the state’s rich fossil history. The University of ...

The Museum holds many items, large and small, that have contributed to the history of Vigo County. While most of them owe their existence to man and his creative mind, some do not. In a corner exhibit ...

In a sense, seeing a T. rex walking the streets of Des Moines would seem less bizarre than seeing that same T. rex fighting a Stegosaurus. “Dinosaurs were around for an incredibly long amount of time, ...

The pebbles are prettier on the other side of Lake Michigan. Even amateur beachcombers know that the Dunes-area shoreline of Indiana and Michigan yields better rocks than Chicago’s gravelly man-made ...

Two Slovak scientists found new imprints left by dinosaurs in the High Tatras, casts of footprints preserved hundred million years. “Mr Milan Sýkora discovered the first area with dinosaur imprints in ...

Fossil crinoids are poorly known from the Antillean islands. To the five taxa of fossil crinoid previously recorded from Jamaica are added two further species of isocrinid, both based on ...

A TikTok user's video of him finding a sea fossil on top of a mountain has gone viral, and many people have rushed to claim it as proof of the Great Flood—but paleontologists have different ideas. The ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

Paleontologists have re-discovered a symbiotic marine marriage that was previously thought to have disappeared from fossil record 273 million years ago. (Zapalski et al. This marine marriage has been ...