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High on Adventure August 2008 Vicki Andersen	John Day Fossil Beds Situated within the deeply eroded layers of volcanic ash, the John Day Formation is a well-preserved history of the flora and fauna that flourished during 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era.
Geotimes February 2005	Paleontologist for a Day Over the last 10 years, approximately 6,000 visitors have participated in pay-to-dig programs and have found well-preserved remnants of Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Apatosaurus and Allosaurus (the only meat-eater) fossils, as well as clues to the Jurassic environment.
Geotimes July 2006 Callan Bentley	Summer Roadtrip: Driving to "West Dakota" From Badlands National Park through the Black Hills to Devils Tower, four hours of driving in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming generates a roadtrip through a region that has much to entertain geo-philic travelers.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fish Fossil Fills Evolutionary Gap A newly discovered fossil is filling a gap in the spotty record of a key evolutionary period -- the phase when animals traded fins for feet and moved from their watery confines onto land.
Geotimes July 2005 Laura Stafford	Rare 3-D Fossil Preservation A new fossil locality in southern China is giving paleontologists a more detailed look at the early body plans of Ediacara organisms.
AskMen.com Jasper Anson	Top 10: National Parks With such a giant landscape to work with, the United States holds a multitude of national parks for local and international tourists to sample any time of the year.
Geotimes December 2005 Megan Sever	Correcting the Fossil Record Recently, paleontologists have been working on ways to fill in gaps in life's diversity record, and some researchers are finding that climate change -- including greenhouse gas warming -- may play a pivotal role in preserving fossil assemblages.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada.
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Mary Beth Gardiner	Fossil Hunter When he's not busy building imaging and electrophysiology tools for studying the brain, Jason Osborne can be found fossil hunting.
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in a remote area of China have unearthed unusually well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the surprisingly modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Home-Baked Plants Solve Petrol Mystery Scientists have baked up their own artificial leaf fossils to answer a long-standing puzzle concerning the chemical formation of kerogen, a precursor to fossil fuels.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization.
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in China have unearthed well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.
Geotimes November 2004 Laura Stafford	Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs.
High on Adventure August 1, 2009 Vicki Andersen	Crested Butte, Colorado Pick an activity. Pick an interest. Pick a season. Whatever your pick, Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte can satisfy every desire.
Geotimes July 2005 Sara Pratt	Fossil Forests Sunk by Salt Geologists, long puzzled about what drove the Joggins, Nova Scotia basin to sink steadily and repeatedly, burying 63 layers of fossilized trees in the process, now say that they have found the answers to some of the mysteries of the formation in a simple substance: salt.
Geotimes June 2006 John Rowland	Coastal Maryland: On the Lookout for Ghosts, Fish and Fossils Point Lookout, Md., has beautiful coastlines along the Chesapeake Bay, where recreational opportunities abound, including boating and fishing. The region has a rich geologic and cultural history.
Geotimes October 2004	Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute...
Geotimes October 2003 Megan Sever	Mine reclamation threatens tracksite In a small corner of northwest Alabama, the most diverse and prolific Carboniferous tracksite known on this planet is in danger of being reburied.
Scientific American September 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Digging Up Valuable Fossils in Suburban New Jersey A fossil search for why some critters made it past the dinosaur-killing event
Chemistry World September 25, 2013	Coloring in the dinosaur book Chemists' best known contributions to palaeontology are probably radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. But they now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the hands of artists: adding color to the ancient world.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2005 Mike Cianciolo	Fossil Crumbles The watch and accessory maker looks good on the surface, but digging deeper reveals flaws. Investors, beware.
Geotimes August 2004 Jay Chapman	Fossil Fetus of Flying Reptile Unearthed The Liaoning specimens were located in lake deposits that were periodically smothered by volcanic ash, preserving the fossils in fine detail. The depth and quality of this fossil resource will continue to make Liaoning a paleontology hot spot in the future.
Smithsonian September 2007 Smith et al.	Points of Interest The 200th anniversary of William Clark's first excavation of fossil vertebrates in the United States... The nation's only surviving town built by and for Chinese-Americans... A new visitor center to remember the Little Rock Nine... etc.
Geotimes May 2004	A Whale of a Find In its devastating, furious race up the U.S. East Coast last September, Hurricane Isabel did one positive thing: It unearthed an extremely rare 8-million-year-old whale skeleton.
Science News September 28, 2008 Sid Perkins	Book Review: A History Of Paleontology Illustration By Jane P. Davidson Although artists have been creating pictures of fossils for more than 500 years, Davidson's book is the first to comprehensively tackle the topic of how those remains have been portrayed through the ages.
Scientific American June 20, 2005 Kate Wong	Desert Island Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of giant amphibians that indicate that climate can effectively isolate organisms and thereby foster the appearance of a new species.
Geotimes February 2005 Martin & Case	Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present.
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Planet Warms, Plants Move in Interlopers from southern and eastern North America and from Europe made their way to Wyoming when global temperatures shot up by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius around 55.8 million years ago.
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Mammals Not Out of Africa New fossil finds are challenging the idea that six disparate orders of African mammals all evolved from a single common ancestor isolated on the continent of Africa by the breakup of Gondwana about 100 million years ago.
Geotimes February 2005 Sara Pratt	Reaching Past Heights A new method of calculating paleoelevations using the stomata, or breathing pores, on fossilized leaves may have promise in constructing the past heights of the landscape.
Geotimes September 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s.
Science News April 8, 2000	Trilobites to Go Extinct even before dinosaurs existed on Earth but extensively preserved in the fossil record...
Geotimes February 2004 Megan Sever	An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after.
Geotimes October 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fossil Embryos Exposed in 3-D For the first time, advanced X-ray imaging technology has captured a 3-D look inside tiny fossil embryos, revealing details that confirm one animal's place on the evolutionary tree.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Donald Russell: Paleontologiste Francais The current Romer-Simpson Medal recipient has worked to gather support for evolution in the field, and his own revolutionary methods have helped amass huge amounts of paleontological data.
Geotimes December 2005 Douglas H. Erwin	Out of the Past and Into the Future Some of the greatest recent triumphs of paleontology have come from intensive and rewarding collaborations among paleontologists, stratigraphers, geochemists and geochronologists.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	David Fastovsky: Dinosaur Virtuoso The paleontologist has played the viola in some of the finest dinosaur fossil sites in the world.
Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2008 Alyce Lomax	One Feisty Fossil This stock's no bony old relic.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Tom Winner	A Luxury Company for the Recession Watch and luxury products maker Fossil shows that its business is anything but petrified. Not only were third-quarter results relatively strong, they also measured up well against those of competitors.
Smithsonian February 2005 Lawrence M. Small	From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2004 Jeremy MacNealy	Prized Fossil Just a Rock? With positive and negative results, the future remains unclear for the maker of accessories and apparel.
Wired August 21, 2007 Guy Gugliotta	Researchers Hope Creatures From Black Lagoon Can Help Fight Cancer The biggest contiguous Superfund site contains more than 100 types of microbes that have managed to survive in the unique, noxious ecosystem. But these organisms are more than unique -- they are also potentially miraculous.