JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - When more than 300 billion gallons of floodwater poured over the Coralville Lake spillway in 1993, it washed away several feet of silt, sand, and limestone, revealing ...
Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, the tallest things on land were not trees or animals but towering, trunk-like ...
The Devonian Period, spanning approximately 419–359 million years ago, represents a pivotal phase in South America’s deep-time history. Fossiliferous formations across the continent—particularly ...
Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...
New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and ...
About 1867, Jay Terrell was walking along the Lake Erie shore in Sheffield Lake when he noticed what appeared to be fossils in the shale cliffs above him that lined the lakeshore. They proved to be ...
This item is a list of Devonian fossils Harris collected in western New York from Erie County to Chautauqua County. Collection numbers are 1219-1231. This list was likely compiled from field notes and ...