In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

A field crew found the first tritylodontid bonebed in the Navajo Sandstone, said the National Park Service NPS / Brian Engh The recent discovery of extremely rare fossils from the Early Jurassic ...

Researchers documenting fossil tracks in March discovered the first tritylodontid fossils ever found in the Navajo Sandstone and rushed to retrieve them before snowmelt replenished Lake Powell. When ...

The receding waters of Lake Powell have revealed some extremely rare fossils from the Jurassic period. Paleontologists had been documenting fossil tracks in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in ...

The Morrison Natural History Museum gives visitors a hands-on look at homegrown fossils—including the original Stegosaurus—that could change everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs. In my 33 ...

The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England. The oldest ...

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EAST VILLAGEEAST VILLAGE — Tom Deméré relishes visiting construction sites with vertical shafts sunk deep into the earth. “It’s always exciting to be involved in a project that extends straight down.

Fruita resident Tom Lawrence retired from a warehouse delivery job with School District 51 in 2009. “But I went back to work for free,” he said with a smile. In 2010 he began volunteering at the ...

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Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England. The fossils, ...