Last time you saw me I was hiking through the woods looking at fossils in the rocks. Now I've brought back a collection of my findings and it's time to take an up-close look and my haul.

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

Where the river bends and curves, the mud occasionally contains pieces of fossilized bone and teeth freed from the rock by erosion ... to care for and share the wonders in an expansive collection of ...

The donated collection of over 250 items includes ... in the dirt and side-by-side examples of ammonite fossils still embedded inside rock. Eric Begonia, a Portland biology teacher for more ...

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Kids’ Pebble Pit: Find fossils, agates and crystals to add to your collection. Mystery Rock Identification: Have a rock, mineral or fossil you are unsure of? Bring it for the experts to identify.

and Miocene rocks of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Robinson also expanded the collection internationally, adding Miocene faunas from Tunisia and late Pliocene fossils from South Africa. In 1972, ...