A team of French experts in paleoenvironments has discovered algae and several bits of marine life that are completely encased in amber, a hard substance thought to originate from hardened tree sap. Amber is renowned for preserving exquisitely detailed fossils, often of insects.

Sand and other sediments can be transported by rivers and floods, but what kind of forces—and how much water—would it take to move thousands of cubic miles of sand from one side of a continent to the other?

We often think that mummies are only found in Egypt, but they have been discovered all over the world. They aren’t always human, either.

The people of Faith, South Dakota, recently celebrated the “birthday” of the discovery of the world’s most famous T. rex fossil, called “Sue” after its discoverer, Susan Hendrickson. But creation science advocates have stepped forward to say that the number of candles on her cake should be a lot fewer than 66 million.