A Michigan shoreline near Alpena turns into a fossil playground when low water exposes limestone from an ancient Devonian tropical ocean. The rocks are packed with crinoid stems, bryozoans, horn coral ...

A giant predator was stalking what is now Britain roughly 415 million years ago, long before forests spread and before the ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago. Using high-tech neutron ...

Above: A brachiopod fossil is seen at the Devonian Fossil Gorge in Iowa City on Friday, June 18, 2021. Visitors can view fossilized remains of the sea creatures that made up the floor of the ocean ...

Lichens were already widespread more than 410 million years ago, according to a new international study that identifies a fossil from Brazil as one of the oldest lichen in Earth's history. The team ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - When more than 300 billion gallons of floodwater poured over the Coralville Lake spillway in 1993, it washed away several feet of silt, sand, and limestone, revealing ...

Good things come in small packages, and that has never been truer than at Indiana's smallest state park, a treasure trove of ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and ...

Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

Fossil fragments suggest the Praearcturus gigas scorpion had a body about one metre long.

The newest exhibit at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will give visitors a glimpse into the world millions of years ago. "Life Onto Land: The Devonian" centers around the crucial ...