Hulbert stressed that the Steinhatchee River site, like many of Florida's great vertebrate fossil sites, was not found by professionals. Hobby fossil collectors like Sinibaldi and Branin work with ...

Confirmed sandhill crane fossils have been found in deposits from 2.5 million years ago, an age when our hominin predecessors were beginning to fashion stone tools. In addition to carrying a ...

Fossil collectors have discovered a prehistoric graveyard buried in Florida’s Steinhatchee River. The site has yielded a remarkable collection of more than 500 fossils dating back roughly half a ...

The sandhill crane descending on the Wisconsin countryside is a beautiful thing. Its gray wings are long and graceful, and it doesn’t swoop — it floats in, like a cloud slipping from the sky.

And he’s been a “sandhill crane nut” ever since he first saw them in large numbers in the late 1990s, on the Platte River in Nebraska. When asked to describe the sandhill migration ...

“We knew we had an important site, but we didn’t know how important.” The 552 fossils from prehistoric Florida are described in a study recently published in the journal Fossil Studie ...