When Ashby Gale, the owner of Charleston Fossil Adventures, found a teardrop-shaped oyster shell encrusted in concrete-like limestone on South Carolina’s Folly Beach in 2015, he knew it was special.

Ranger David Ward, who was there when the find was made, said: "I said 'have you drawn [the markings] on the rock?' because ...

The fossils, uncovered in Staffordshire’s White Peak region, belonged to goniatites — extinct relatives of modern squid and ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — Although you may be familiar with the abundance of wildlife the Show-Me State currently has to offer, you might not have to go far to explore Missouri’s prehistoric inhabitants. Let’s ...

Last week, we introduced you to a special type of rock, the fossiliferous limestone. It is largely composed of fossil shells and fragments of fossil shells. We showed you a very fine example of a ...

An environmental scientist at Harrisburg University recently found the shell of an extinct, previously unknown turtle species at a fossil site in Tennessee. The discovery of the painted turtle – which ...