A quick stop in a Kentucky creek turns into an unexpected fossil hunt, with crinoid stems, horn coral, tiny geodes, and crystal pockets scattered through the gravel. But the real payoff comes the next ...

Today's photograph is for you paleo-geeks ... this nice crinoid stem is from a formation I forget the name of along the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. If you have some ...

A Michigan shoreline near Alpena turns into a fossil playground when low water exposes limestone from an ancient Devonian tropical ocean. The rocks are packed with crinoid stems, bryozoans, horn coral ...

A 'living fossil' believed to have gone extinct over 270 million years ago has been found thriving in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The strange-looking fossil is formed from the stalks of marine ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...