A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

Chances are good that you would be startled to find a rhinoceros beetle perched over your bed one night. This South American insect is one of the largest in the world. It measures 6 inches long and 2 ...

If you see a funky-looking blob while you’re fishing in Ohio, don't look away. It could be a colony of numerous animals. Invertebrates in this colony, known as the bryozoan or "moss animals," reside ...

Take a step into the past during the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History’s Family Invertebrate Fossil Field Trip. Led by Dr. Steve Westrop, museum invertebrate paleontology curator, the trip takes ...

After getting some great feedback from last week’s column on Ohio’s Earth Science Week and its discussion of rocks and minerals, I thought a good follow-up this week would be to highlight some of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The specimen is made up of multiple articulated exoskeleton ...

Rock and fossil hounds will learn more about Oklahoma’s invertebrate fossils and have an opportunity to dig for and collect some of their own at an adult education program and field trip offered ...