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

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

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

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

The lawsuit alleges that William Paterson University's unpaid invoices led to around 200 marine fossils being discarded in ...

THE year is 1992 and a rare fossil collection is featured in Taunton at the Somerset Museum. Multiple artefacts including bones of woolly rhinoceroses, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and cave lions and ...

A college professor in New Jersey is claiming that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence ...

The irreplaceable fossils got intercepted in transit and ended up in a landfill in Tennessee, according to the lawsuit.

Becker spent “hundreds upon hundreds of hours” collecting the Devonian age marine invertebrate fossils from the High Mountain area of Wayne, New Jersey, the suit says. Becker needed to send ...

Life’s passion: Peggy Montes, 88, carries a passion for empowering women and educating children through the museum she ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.