The stunning limestone walls and floors that are a hallmark of Asia Society Texas Center's architecture are also home to fossils dating to the Jurassic era. Learn about some of the different types of ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A Ph.D. student recently found the counterpart of the original fossil at the ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio The same forces that cause volcanoes, mountains, and ocean basins also cause climatic changes that have ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: The attached video above is from a story about Fossil Park that aired on Aug. 5, 2021. Ohio has a rich and fascinating history. In northwest Ohio alone, historical ...

(Reuters) - A fossil jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore on Scotland's Isle of Skye led scientists to discover the skeleton of a pterosaur that showed that these remarkable flying reptiles ...

The ancient oceans of Earth have been shrouded in mystery for centuries, and every decade, humans come one step closer to understanding the past. A recent discovery by the National Park Service in the ...

Late one night last September, I received a phone call from a stranger. The man, the owner of a stone-cutting workshop near Cairo, told me he had seen something strange—some kind of fossil—while ...

Excavated from a hayfield near Warrensburg, Fossil Pond and its limestone evoke an age 300 million years ago when a vast sea covered much of the Midwest, including Kansas City. Gary Rhoades From a ...

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 black "marble" tombstone is made of limestone that likely came from Belgium. International Journal of Historical Archaeology A mysterious black tombstone that marked the final resting place of a ...