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, ...

Several billion years ago, the oceans were probably not as hot as often assumed, but were instead at much more moderate temperatures. This is the conclusion of a research team from the University of ...

Visitors to an archeological site in Grand Meadow, a rural town in southern Minnesota pause to read a sign along the Wanhi Yukan Trail on July 7. The archeological record shows Indigenous have ...

L-1(Onondaga Chert): Provenience includes a prehistoric quarry. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally weathered specimens. L-1(Onondaga Chert): Chert samples from the base of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

S-1836 (Old Port Chert): Provenience includes a roadcut. Collection includes raw material. S-1836 (Old Port Chert): See map for location. Old Port Chert is also known as Corriganville, Eliberry, ...