Trilobites, such as this Mummaspis muralensis, emerged during the Cambrian Period and went extinct more than 250 million years ago. About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to ...

Delta, Utah — Facing another weekend of ferrying kids to the mall and catching up on the laundry, I racked my brain for a getaway. Years ago a colleague had written an amusing article about hunting ...

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers—two from Cambridge University and one from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has found evidence that suggests that the earliest trilobites were able to roll up their ...

People from all over the world come to Utah to visit a quarry which contains one of the world's richest deposit of fossils. U-dig, a 40-acre quarry filled with fossils, is located about 50 miles west ...

SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) -- A blur of pigtails, arms and legs dives into the pile of dirt and rocks, searching for hidden treasures. It takes only seconds before the first high-pitched voice screams, "I ...

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