Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and ...

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his ...

Now, his collection of fossilized dinosaur bones, teeth and shells line the fourth floor ... in the dirt and side-by-side examples of ammonite fossils still embedded inside rock.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The names Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic all describe the types of fossils that have been found ... no better in the oceans with mosasaurs, ammonites, belemnites, giant inoceramid bivalves ...