One of the shop’s most popular attractions is its selection of geodes. These unassuming round rocks hold a secret: crack them ...

Considered one of the “Seven Wonders of Oregon,” the Painted Hills are part of the John Day Fossil Beds National ... remains of plants and animals preserved in sedimentary rock.

A s we discussed in the last column, the most recent global extinction event took place 65 million years ago (mya), killing 75 percent of all living species, including dinosaurs ...

These fossils include representatives of the early-evolving Scalidophora, a subgroup of Ecdysozoa, offering a rare glimpse into the nervous system architecture of ancient animals. Ecdysozoans ...

Once it is firmly stoppered in a bottle, wine should be protected from its greatest enemy, the oxygen in the air. If, however, the cork dries out and eventually shrinks so that it no longer acts as an ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and ... into ancient marine ecosystems and the geological processes that preserved them. Whether admired in a museum or studied in a ...

In 1969, paleontologists discovered fossil leaves of a plant they named Othniophyton elongatum in the Green River Formation. This region, 47 million years old, once housed a lake where remarkably ...

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