Watch as we cut open a 20-million-year-old agatized coral, revealing an astonishing, otherworldly scene hidden inside this ...

Imagine being able to measure the extent of sea-level change over the past half million years, or find out why our climate changes through time. Clues to those mysteries and others may be sunk deep in ...

PETOSKEY — On June 28, 1965, Gov. George Romney signed a bill naming the Petoskey stone as Michigan's official state stone. This Petoskey stone was found in Bayfront Park in Petoskey. The stone, which ...

When Tim O'Brien of Copemish, Mich., spotted the massive Petoskey stone a week ago, it was buried in the sand several feet out in Lake Michigan, The Grand Rapids Press reported. O'Brien came back to ...

Now, new research led by Virginia Tech geosciences graduate student Prescott Vayda has finally linked Salterella to the ...

A coral fossil is pictured next to a dime to get a sense of scale. (Barbara Khinoy) The most frequently found fossils on Staten Island are brachiopods, corals, clams, bryozoans and crinoids. But even ...

Fossils of ancient coral clusters have been discovered in Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fossils were spread out in an area of ground roughly 6 square meters in size ...

A new species and genus of octocoral (Cnidaria Anthozoa) was described from Zamami Island Okinawa Japan, Nanipora kamurai. Molecular phylogenetic analyses showed that the species is closely related to ...