In today's video I visited the famous Rockport Quarry near Alpena, Michigan with my friend Rob ‪Michigan Rocks‬ here on YouTube! This is an abandoned limestone quarry which is open to the public to go ...

Avoid the crowds and head to this small town in Arizona with a historic downtown that's right near the Petrified Forest ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters ...

Parking is plentiful and – here’s the kicker – often free, a welcome contrast to the meter-feeding frenzy of Colorado’s ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

rusty red sedimentary rock, all of that rock was laid down in things like river systems and floods and storms at the very beginning of what we call the Permian period.” A fossilized walchia frond ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

Over 200 volunteers, paleontologists, and construction companies are donating time, tools and talents to excavate as many fossils as possible from this acre of 200-million-year-old red rock from the ...

Fossil hunting started in 1998 when Pokémon Red and Blue were all the rage ... That involves a lot of splitting rock. So you gotta bring work gloves, various chisels, and a portable tile saw. You have ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...

The Red Crag formation is a hotspot for fossils from the Paleogene period ... bones" in the area's gault clay (a type of sedimentary rock). Bracklesham Bay in West Sussex, which is "renowned ...

Maybe something a bit different from the admittedly wonderful red sandstone of southwest ... will be tempted to take home a few fossils they find in the rocks or chip out of the walls.