When rain pelted Ventura County earlier this year, 15-year-old Kaylee Tan went in search of fossils in the creek behind her Simi Valley home. She was hopeful. She had found turritella fossils, a type ...

BILLINGS, Mont. | It’s not often that a welder gets called out on a job like the one Andy Brekke recently undertook. Brekke, owner of Beartooth Ironworks in Billings, drove to a ranch in the Grass ...

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But this time he decided to bring the fossils out in such large pieces so he could more closely control their excavation in his lab. That enables him to analyze rock around the fossils to test for ...