In June 2024, paleontologist Martin Becker of New Jersey's William Paterson University packed up his life's work, a priceless ...

A professor is taking his university to court after his lifelong work vanished into a landfill, allegedly because of them.

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

The donated collection of over 250 items includes teeth from a prehistoric shark and fossilized dinosaur bones like the horn ...

By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many businesses since it was built in 1892. Its creaky wooden floor is now covered with ...

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...

Martin Becker, professor of environment science and paleontologist at William Paterson University, had planned to collaborate ...

Collectors want quantity; they want quality; they want something no one else has. And their fervor to discover has driven prices and egos sky-high in today’s commercial fossil market.

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Out today, the Fossil x Minecraft collection ($65 to $220) comprises chronograph watches, leather wallets and bracelets with Creeper-inspired beads. The brand’s Machine timepieces are ...

Keep track of time in the Overworld with digital-inspired dials, leather wallets and beaded bracelets featuring Creepers, Diamond Ore and more.