Many specimens have labels written in beautiful cursive, including one dated Aug. 22, 1896. The leaf shape is virtually identical to the fossil from around 100 million years ago and to a modern ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

The 14,000-acre John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in the eastern part of the state is a ‘layer cake’ of time.

Turning a rusty, old leaf spring into a razor-sharp karambit knife is a fascinating process that will leave you amazed. This ...

Whether you’re out to see the famous Painted Hills or hoping to explore what lies beyond, here’s your complete guide to the many beautiful sights of the John Day Fossil Beds of central Oregon.

A mysterious, ancient organism with leaf-like fronds once flourished in shallow waters. Now, after decades of debate as to whether these organisms were fungi, algae, protozoa or even from a lost ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast ...

They are fossil soil horizons, and they are beautiful! The fossil plant site, by contrast, is not a wide, flat layer and it isn’t bright-colored.

SYDNEY -- Botanists have found a stand of "living fossil" trees from a species dating to prehistoric times in the dense rain forests about 400 miles north of Sydney.

Symmetrical leaf damage in newly reported plant fossils strongly resembles insect-produced holes in modern plants that can fold up their leaves, such as the common clover Trifolium (shown).