PORT TOWNSEND — A fossilized tusk has been discovered by visitors at Fort Worden State Park. “The tusk was found to be eroding out of the sandstone bluff on the beach there at Fort Worden,” said ...

A field crew found the first tritylodontid bonebed in the Navajo Sandstone, said the National Park Service NPS / Brian Engh The recent discovery of extremely rare fossils from the Early Jurassic ...

A fossil uncovered by chance on a remote beach in northern England has revealed one of the most extraordinary creatures to ...

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Alan Dailey discovered an ichthyosaur fossil when he was boating at Flaming River Gorge in Utah in May. Utah State Parks A boat trip on Utah’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir turned into quite the adventure ...

A new study has found dinosaur footprints in sandstone embedded between fossilized lava dating back 183 million years in southern Africa. During this time in the early Jurassic period, a mass ...

The Morrison Natural History Museum gives visitors a hands-on look at homegrown fossils—including the original Stegosaurus—that could change everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs. In my 33 ...

Fruita resident Tom Lawrence retired from a warehouse delivery job with School District 51 in 2009. “But I went back to work for free,” he said with a smile. In 2010 he began volunteering at the ...

A painting depicting an Early Jurassic scene from the Navajo Sandstone desert preserved at Glen Canyon NRA The recent discovery of extremely rare fossils from the Early Jurassic period in Utah is an ...