One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

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

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

Rock Springs, Wyo. - Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest ...

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

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

British oil and gas giant Shell said Monday that it was ending its participation in two offshore wind projects in the North Sea, part of its shift away from alternative energy to focus on its fossil ...

A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct. Adult marine shell ...

A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct. The research, ...