A Florida river fossil hunt turns into an incredible Ice Age treasure hunt, with fossils appearing across a riverbank sitting above Eocene limestone estimated at around 40 million years old. The group ...

Everest's summit is composed largely of the Qomolangma Formation, a sequence of marine limestones deposited during the Ordovician Period, more than 450 million years ago. At that time, the region was ...

Ancient marine fossils embedded in rocks near the summit of Mount Everest are drawing renewed attention after social media ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

Idaho National Laboratory is perhaps best known for innovative research that helps shape the clean energy economies of today and tomorrow—and for good reason. But while much of the laboratory's work ...

For more than a hundred years, one sea creature was thought to define the story of ichthyosaurs in southern Germany’s ...

Mount Everest’s summit contains 450-million-year-old marine fossils from an ancient seafloor; renewed discussion of the ...

A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany 150 million years ago. The fossil is the ...

Among the 3,000 fossils seized at a Brazilian port in 2013 was an almost complete skeleton from the pterosaur species Tupandactylus navigans, preserved in six limestone slabs. By Vimal Patel Limestone ...

Learn about Earth’s history with five fossils that have stories to tell Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Though massive creatures may look like a dinosaur, the Dimetrodon lived 50 million years before ...

Donald G. MacVicar Jr., 21-year-old Amherst senior and chemistry major, got the idea in a college bull session. After he tested it in the laboratory, MacVicar decided he had the answer to a problem ...

The trick to a successful search for fossils is finding the proper place. After all, paleontologists rarely select their sites at random. Instead, they consider an assortment of areas — comparing the ...