A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...
Paleontologists recently uncovered a striking golden fossil—encased in fool’s gold—scientifically known as iron pyrite, estimated to be 450 million years old. This ancient fossil belongs to a newly ...
When he saw the ripples encased within them, Jay Anderson knew there was something unique about the pieces of rock dislodged from a boulder in his Steele County gravel pit. Months later, those ripples ...
Walking along the Six Mile Creek there are rocks big and small glinting in the sunlight. You may think you’ve struck it rich before the gold stones disappointingly flake apart ...