"This is really weird, because in all of the fossils that I know of, no one has ever found a mass of stones inside the throat of an animal." The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks ...

Wild Kyle joins Rob from Michigan Rocks and their friend Sam at Michigan's Rockport Quarry to search for marine fossils ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient, squid-like belemnite from Wyoming after discovering the thickest ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...

In the 6th-grade unit 'Land Formation and Changes,' the focus is on inferring how land is formed based on strata, rocks, and ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

Rock and fossil lovers of every age have a free reason to head to Alum Creek State Park next month. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey is hosting Ohio Geology ...

A leaf that dropped from a tree around 50 million years ago could be waiting inside a rock you split open yourself. That’s ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly preserved body doesn't tell the whole story of how that ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...