"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting ...

Teeth from extinct species like Otodus obliquus (an ancestor of the legendary Megalodon) are commonly found in New Jersey’s Cretaceous and Eocene layers. And while actual Megalodon teeth are extremely ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, to the lesser known duck-billed Maiasaura ...

Paleontologists have been collecting fossils in southern New Jersey for over a century, but Lacovara didn't think there was anything left to discover there. He first visited this quarry in 2003 ...

In New Jersey, Kids Help Dig For Fossils In An Unlikely Place Each week, hundreds of kids gather behind an unassuming shopping center in New Jersey. They're digging for fossils with a real ...

If New Jersey invests in clean energy, we’ll reduce emissions and create well-paying jobs, stem rising utility bills and strengthen our economy.

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and ...

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and ...