It’s Dad’s birthday next week, I tell the boys. What shall we get him? Without hesitation, they chime in: the Phacops rana at A2Z. A2Z is a science and nature store in town, where our youngest is ...

(WHTM) — October 11 is National Fossil Day when paleontologists, students, and educators hold fossil-related events across the county celebrating and teaching the importance of paleontology. This is ...

Sunday was Charles Darwin’s birthday, the perfect excuse for celebrating a tiny, extinct creature that left such an extensive fossil record Pennsylvania honors it as the official state fossil. Long ...

(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania lawmaker says she will soon propose a bill that would change Pennsylvania’s state fossil. The Pennsylvania State fossil is currently a type of trilobite called Phacops rana.

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