Fossils

geology

Washington fossils are the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the region millions of years ago, ranging from ancient marine shells and fish to early land pla...

Prehistoric Life

Dinosaurs in Kentucky represents an evergreen topic that combines local natural history, geology, and public science education. Although the state is better known for coal and m...

science

New Mexico preserves a remarkable record of Late Cretaceous ecosystems, with exposures that span rivers, floodplains, and coastal environments. These deposits have produced icon...

Science & Research

When a fossil finder name appears in a research report or news story, it usually refers to the person who located and first documented a specimen, not necessarily the scientist...

Science & Nature

Dinosaurs of the Grand Canyon are an enduring curiosity, but fossil evidence is limited. The region preserves spectacular Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks, yet dinosaur body fossils...

science

An index fossil is the verified explanation accepted by geology to describe a fossil used to identify and correlate the age of the rock layers in which it occurs. In practice, i...