Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on the farm, my brothers, sisters and I had fun gathering all sorts of rocks.

Haaheo Mansfield believes rock collecting is in her DNA. “Apparently my paternal grandmother also collected rocks,” says the VP of programs for Parents and Children Together, a nonprofit family ...

Lean and chipper, Pat Tilson, 76, doesn’t look like someone who had a quadruple bypass 20 years ago. The experience left her attuned to finding hearts in everyday things. Eventually, she began ...

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident. Last year, the Yavapai ...

Researchers have discovered a brownish piece of split limestone in a site in Croatia that suggests Neanderthals 130,000 years ago collected the rock that stands out among all other items in the cave.

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified as belonging to a U.S. Marine who died in a 1951 training accident decades later. Last year, ...