Melbourne celebrates seashells at Wickham Park with exhibits, crafts, jewelry, prizes, expert ID and free entry Jan. 17 and ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

The creature locals now call “Godzillus” did not roar out of a movie screen but out of Ordovician rock, lifted piece by piece ...

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

There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

A recent forensics analysis has positively identified a set of skeletal remains that washed up on a beach in Grays Harbor ...

After nearly two decades of mystery, the remains of a man found in Grays Harbor County have been identified. The breakthrough ...