The show where people can purchase minerals to fossils to jewelry is organized by Mark Woods, owner of Southeastern Mineral Specimens in Athens. He is a longtime rock hound and mineral collector a ...

By Thomas Smith Last year, around the middle of February, there was no snow in the bush in Haliburton County. With the ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

There are more than 450 fossils and fossil replicas in the Morian Hall of Paleontology, more than 750 mineral specimens in the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals and 425 specimens representing ...

The Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society is holding its annual Mineral & Gem Rough N' Cut event where rare finds and sparkling ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Montana Tech has been collecting mineral specimens since it first opened as the Montana School of Mines in 1901. “This museum is at least partially responsible for me being a geologist, so little kids ...

Smithson was one of the first researchers to systematically categorize calamine—or zinc as it was later called. In 1832, three years after Smithson’s death, French mineralogist François Sulpice ...

Learn why similar mineral deposits may represent a treasure trove of fossilized soft tissue.

Montana Tech's Mineral Museum has been collecting specimens for more than a century and is open to the public.