At Rockport State Recreation Area, visitors can explore a fossil filled quarry and look for ancient remains that date back more than 400 million years.

Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Hundreds of millions of years ago, much of South Central Kentucky sat below a warm, shallow sea. According to fossil experts, the fossils locked inside the region’s ...

Excavated from a hayfield near Warrensburg, Fossil Pond and its limestone evoke an age 300 million years ago when a vast sea covered much of the Midwest, including Kansas City. Gary Rhoades From a ...

Thousands of years ago, an owl’s messy leftovers became prime real estate for some very determined bees. Deep inside a cave ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...