JOPLIN, Mo. — You don’t have far to travel to see one of the most unique ecosystems in the world. You may have already seen it without knowing what it was. If you’ve ever been to Wildcat Park in ...

Walking through corn rows and into a field, Jeff Thorsen and his elderly father Maurice looked for a good spot to enter the thick, wooded area. Nothing seemed extraordinary about the seven acres ...

The 3,465-million year-old Apex chert of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia has been controversially reported to contain some of the oldest fossil evidence for life: tiny carbonaceous filaments ...

L-1187 (Fishpot Chert): Not a direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens. L-1187 ...

The Rhynie Chert fossil deposit in Scotland is just over 400 million years old and reveals secrets of life’s conquest of the land How life made the move onto land is one of the big questions for ...

TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa County Commission is awaiting word on its $700,000 offer for a pit of road-building material in eastern Tuscaloosa County. The commission last week voted unanimously to buy ...

Many of the Outer Wilds mysteries we’ve explored so far have eventually pointed us to the Hourglass Twins, specifically the Ember Twin. There’s a lot to explore here, and not a lot of time to do it, ...