Rocks, gems, minerals, and jewelry! The Wisconsin Geological Society is hosting its annual show in Waukesha this weekend.

This hidden South Carolina mine lets visitors dig for real crystals, smoky quartz, and gems straight from the red clay.

For sugar-white sand and crystal-clear water, Clearwater, Florida takes the cake as one of the best beach destinations.

New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to 3.7 million years old, roughly a million years older than many earlier ...

As the Ouachita National Forest moves to open new quartz mining near Jessieville, conservationists are raising concerns about the proposal. On April 5, the U.S. Forest Service, which manages the Ozark ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

Jeff Rose, a part owner of a countertop fabrication shop in Nicholasville, Ky., is among the hundreds, if not thousands, of workers who have been diagnosed with silicosis, a lethal lung disease caused ...

If you want to find fossil Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia, you'll need to recreate their skeletal bodies using their respective fossils. It's kind of bleak, but these ancient Pokémon want to live in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Cambrian Period fossils date to about 512 million years ago Fossils show invertebrates of various shapes and sizes They reveal animal legs, gills, guts, eyes and even nerves Jan 28 (Reuters) - ...