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Ancient swamp was likely centered at 17th and L Streets NW
Washington, D.C.

D.C.'s Underground Bald Cypress Fossils

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.
spiders

Presenting the Closest Relative to Modern Spiders Ever Found

The fossil is 305 million years old.
Erik Shilling March 30, 2016
animals

Found: Tiny Lizards Preserved in Amber

The lizard fossils are around 99 million years old.
Sarah Laskow March 7, 2016
dinosaurs

Found: A Massive Jurassic Graveyard

23,000 square miles of Patagonia is one of the most productive fossil-hunting grounds in the world.
Sarah Laskow February 29, 2016
Skyline Drive
Cañon City, Colorado

Skyline Drive

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
It's all about presentation
Madrid, Spain

Museo Geominero

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.
butterflies

FOUND: Ancient Winged Insects Were So Close to Being Butterflies

Sarah Laskow February 4, 2016
The cliffs at Calvert Cliffs State Park
Lusby, Maryland

Calvert Cliffs State Park

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
dinosaurs

Why All the Cool New Dinosaurs Are From Asia And South America

Sarah Laskow October 9, 2015
animals

FOUND: A Woolly Mammoth in a Michigan Farmer's Field

Sarah Laskow October 2, 2015
news

FOUND: A New Species of Hominin, Homo Naledi

Sarah Laskow September 10, 2015
animals

FOUND: A Four-Legged Fossil That Might Be a Snake

Sarah Laskow July 24, 2015
animals

FOUND: A Fossil That Shows How Turtles Got Their Shells

Sarah Laskow June 25, 2015
deserts

FOUND: An Ancient Whale Fossil With a Smaller Whale Inside

Sarah Laskow June 3, 2015
bones

FOUND: The Jawbones of a Never-Before-Seen Species of Early Human

Sarah Laskow May 28, 2015
fossils

How To Become A Fossil After You Die

Dan Nosowitz May 1, 2015
geology

Fossil Roads and a Sea Serpent That Wasn't: Alabama's Overlooked Prehistory

Asher Elbein January 27, 2015
Permanently Closed
Petrified Sea Garden
Saratoga Springs, New York

Petrified Sea Garden

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.