Tennessee by the numbers – Total fossils recorded in PBDB: 34 – Genus with the most fossils: Aves (3 fossils) – Time period with the most fossils: Late Pleistocene (28 fossils) ...

Small fossils need to be sorted from rocks and pebbles,” says Widga. “This happens in the Gray Fossil Site preparation lab on the second floor of the museum.

GRAY, Tenn. (WKRN) – One of Tennessee’s most fossil-rich dig sites was only discovered a couple of decades ago, but it has millions of years of history still waiting to be uncovered.

January 17, 2023 Pennsylvania professor discovers 5 million-year-old fossil of previously unknown, extinct turtle This is the second new ancient species identified by scientist Steven Jasinski ...

In a thrilling discovery, scientists with East Tennessee State University (ETSU) have recently confirmed the prehistoric fossils found in an area known as the Gray Fossil Site belonged to two ...

Dandridge, Tennessee — An 11-year-old girl from Tennessee stumbled upon a rare fossil that was 475 million years old.. Ryleigh Taylor was fishing with her parents Monday when she decided to take ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — East Tennessee State University says its researchers have discovered fossils of two extinct prehistoric, pig-looking species that previously had never been found in ...

Donald G. MacVicar Jr., 21-year-old Amherst senior and chemistry major, got the idea in a college bull session. After he tested it in the laboratory, MacVicar decided he had the answer to a problem ...

These rocks also contain fossils. Closely examining the limestone reveals pieces of animals that once lived in a shallow tropical reef when an ocean covered Illinois and Indiana 340 million years ago.

GRAY, Tenn. (WKRN) – One of Tennessee’s most fossil-rich dig sites was only discovered a couple of decades ago, but it has millions of years of history still waiting to be uncovered.

An 11-year-old girl from Tennessee managed to do just that, and she wasn’t even trying. ... The fossil was sitting along the shore of Douglas Lake in Tennessee, ...