Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

"Fishes of the Chicago Region," a guide to fishes of the Chicago region by Francis Veraldi, Stephen Pescitelli and Philip Willink (University of Chicago Press), will be formally released on June 3. It ...

Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have revealed evidence of a 310-million-year-old shark nursery located along the ...

A survey found that Americans think the coolest work you can do in Illinois is be a fossil expert at the Field Museum.

These fossils were estimated to be 500,000 to 780,000 years old.Thanks to the dedication of volunteers from the San Joaquin Valley Paleontology Foundation, 6,000 fossils were unearthed by 1997.

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago ...

Her research project began to take shape as she found references to plant fossils in century-old academic works, and from there she began poring over historical newspaper accounts of the industry ...

He found the fossil ant preserved in limestone from Brazil’s Crato Formation, a geologic site in the northeast of the country known for its fossils. “I was so excited, I was trying to not ...

Police were conducting a death investigation after a body was found in a forest preserve Saturday afternoon in DuPage County, Illinois. The body was found shortly before 3 p.m. in the Burlington ...

Elliott said: "I love fossils. It made me really happy we just found it. "When I look at one of my fossils, it makes me really interested and I think, how many more dinosaurs can I find?