A quick stop in a Kentucky creek turns into an unexpected fossil hunt, with crinoid stems, horn coral, tiny geodes, and ...

Rockport Quarry in Alpena, Michigan, looks like a normal fossil-hunting spot until the ground starts telling a much older ...

Today's photograph is for you paleo-geeks ... this nice crinoid stem is from a formation I forget the name of along the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. If you have some ...

A 'living fossil' believed to have gone extinct over 270 million years ago has been found thriving in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The strange-looking fossil is formed from the stalks of marine ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...