Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

The agents’ hot tips among the runners and riders at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair The Bookseller ’s Hotlists are ...

My father taught us how to patiently and carefully free these strange things from the rock ... whose bodies were imprinted in what would become stone. This brought to life the seafront and ...

The property is also of great geological and aesthetic interest: the panorama of geological formations with "rock forests" of eroded sandstone resembles a strange lunar landscape ... depicting daily ...

The plant itself has had quite the journey upon its discovery back in March of 2024- when a park volunteer and a supervisory interpretive park ranger at Big Bend National Park found the little plant ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

Perseverance discovered this rock on March 11 on the rim of the Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed that the rover has been exploring since 2021 for signs of past microbial life. Scientists say ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Perseverance acquired this image of the "St. Pauls Bay" target (the dark-toned float block in ...

The Cheyava Falls rock on Mars could have harbored microbial life, although non-biological processes cannot yet be ruled out. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The Neretva Vallis channel, where the rock ...

In some cases, victims are left with a crooked grin, due to involuntary muscle contractions You must have heard about poisonous plants, but have you ever heard about a plant so deadly that it ...

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...