The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period. When you purchase ...

The fossil beds' biggest attraction is a petrified stump that once supported a 200-foot-high redwood tree. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

A large find of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants and tree stumps in far northwestern Alaska provides new information about the climate and movement of animals near the time when they began ...