How dinosaur fossils were found on an island with 'the wrong sort of rocks'

Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.
Chicago Tribune

The world’s best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago. But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek.

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

'Dreams do come true': 77-year-old, one of volunteers doing vital fossil work, is involved in mammal discovery

Fruita resident Tom Lawrence retired from a warehouse delivery job with School District 51 in 2009. “But I went back to work for free,” he said with a smile. In 2010 he began volunteering at the ...

Dinosaur eggshells unlock a new way to tell time in the fossil record

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...