A TikTok user's video of him finding a sea fossil on top of a mountain has gone viral, and many people have rushed to claim it as proof of the Great Flood—but paleontologists have different ideas. The ...

Researchers have discovered geometric, hollow, ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils of bizarre marine animals. Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the ...

Burlington's famous fossil may soon get statewide recognition if the Legislature approves a proposal by Democrats to put the crinoid on par with Iowa's goldfinch, rose, geode and oak tree. Seven ...

Iowa does have a state bird (Eastern Goldfinch) and a state flower (wild rose), but it is one of seven states not to have a state fossil, despite the state’s rich fossil history. The University of ...

An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about how some of the earliest animals on Earth came to dominate the world's oceans. An unusual fossil find is giving scientists new ideas about ...