The Pentagon and other well-known buildings all over the world were built using materials made from microbes that lived about 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period when dinosaurs still ...

Researchers are constantly finding amazing fossils in places where you might not expect them, but a new discovery by scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) really takes the cake. After ...

Oolitic limestone is a popular building material around the world and is almost completely made of millimetre-sized spheres of carbonate called ooids. Different types of oolitic limestones have formed ...

Buckingham Palace is made from stone containing microscopic ancient fossils from the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Along with a number of other historic London buildings, the palace is ...

The Pentagon was one one of the buildings to make use of Oolitic limestone Ken Hammond/Courtesty of the U.S. Air Force/Getty Images Oolitic limestone, a popular building material that is found in ...

OOLITIC, Ind. -- A southern Indiana company known for supplying limestone to the Empire State Building and the Pentagon is cutting stone under new ownership after going through bankruptcy. Indiana ...

For more than 200 years, Lawrence County has been forging its own history. Since the county's establishment in 1818, three men who have called Bedford and Mitchell home have flown space and limestone ...

Resilience Capital Partners announced the acquisition of Victor Oolitic Stone Company, a Bloomington, Ind.-based limestone provider. This transaction marks the first acquisition under Resilience’s ...

Victor Oolitic Stone Co., which does business as Indiana Limestone Co., received court approval last week to sell its assets to Indiana Commercial Finance LLC in exchange for $26 million in secured ...

The Quarry Trail (Q1, Q2) takes visitors through the bottom of the abandoned quarry. The rock walls surrounding the quarry bottom are composed of limestone. Limestone consists mainly of calcium ...