Story and photos by Craig Thomas, Archaeologist and Paleontology Coordinator, BLM-WY Rock Springs Field Office Last fall, a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out fishing north of Mobile in 2021 when they spotted ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

A routine fishing trip on the Alabama River turned extraordinary when a family spotted what would become a scientific breakthrough. The Colemans discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old ...

For over five hundred million years, a small, cone-shaped fossil known as Salterella has puzzled paleontologists. This peculiar creature, abundant in early Cambrian rocks, defied the conventional ...