KGW's Grant McOmie goes on a treasure hunt at the Oregon coast, joining beachcombers to seek out fossils and agates washed up by the tides.

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

Florida is Not Known for Crystals... THIS is Why it Should Be! Finding Calcite in Fossil Clams! In today's video, PaleoCris and I went to meet up with our buddy Derek to do some rockhounding here in ...

At first glance, these fossil clams looked ordinary. But once opened, they revealed something completely unexpected. Calcite ...

A dinosaur was discovered beneath the parking lot at the monument’s most-visited attraction. It’s the first excavation in ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Researchers in American Sāmoa were surprised to find that giant clams are faring much better than expected. These huge molluscs are at risk from many human threats – including overharvesting, warming ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab Desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...

Fossil CEO Franco Fogliato is photographed before a wall of wrist watch tins in their Richardson, Texas headquarters, December 2, 2025. The company is known for their artistic watch tins. Tom Fox / ...

A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered in the early 2000s—was indeed bipedal by uncovering a feature found only in ...