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 ...

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, ...

L-196 (Eel River Chert): Provenience includes samples from gravel deposits. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens. L-196 (Eel River Chert) Eel River chert ...

A spectacular cache of fossils unearthed in the rural north-east of Scotland could serve as a “Rosetta Stone” for helping us to understand early life. The Rhynie chert, first discovered in 1912 near ...

The Shelby County Commission has authorized county officials to negotiate the possible purchase of up to 20 acres off Shelby County 109 that would be used for chert. The land near Wilsonville is next ...

S-1805 (Normanskill Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material. S-1805 (Normanskill Chert): Gravle pit west side of Rt. 9 W; North of Catskill, past the rocket sign.

GRAND MEADOW, MINN. – An ancient Dakota quarry is about to become a new privately maintained trail in southeast Minnesota. The Grand Meadow Chert Quarry, or the Wahni Yukan in Dakota — so named for ...

A style of architecture almost exclusive to Gainesville has been named one of this year's 11 most endangered historic sites in Florida by the historic preservation group Florida Trust. More than 140 ...

Researchers trying to study the earliest signs of life on Earth have a tall task—it would be easier to find a needle in a haystack. Not much of the rock that formed at the surface of the Earth over ...