Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while ...

Scientists with Mississippi State University (MSU) played a role in a new fossil discovery not far from the Starkville campus. MSU doctoral researchers Jonathan ...

"They do all the surveys, they collect all the fossils, they prepare all the fossils, identify all the fossils ... seeing piles of mussels and sea snail shells “so old and ancient that they ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could ...

Imagine hiking through New Zealand’s wild Fiordland, mist curling around ancient peaks, waterfalls thundering into ...

The fossil was found in an area that was once underwater ... Starnes said he and Leard were looking for a pile of ancient sea shells that Leard had collected and misplaced on a gravel bar.