In Alabama most people are probably familiar with the state bird, the Yellowhammer, or the state tree, the Longleaf pine but they may be more surprised by the state's fossil, a giant ancient whale.

The fossils the center examined were unearthed over 100 years ago in the state’s Wilcox County. Then McWane Science Center Director of Collections Jun Ebersole uncovered them.

In Alabama, McWane Science Center displays prehistoric dinosaur bones, ... Oklahoma’s state fossil—a Saurophaganax Maximus skull—was discovered in the 1930s in Cimarron County.

The rare whale skull, discovered by 16-year-old Lindsey Stallworth and her teacher Drew Gentry on her family’s Alabama property, could be a new species.

A high school teacher from Oneonta, Ashley Allen, has made a significant archaeological discovery in Walker County, Alabama, that is drawing int ...

High school student finds 34-million-year-old fossil. At just 16 years old, Lindsey Stallworth got to experience something most paleontologists can only dream of: unearthing a whale skull believed ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

Alabama School of Math and Science student Lindsey Stallworth works with fossils in her high school’s research space. This summer, she and a professor discovered a rare, 30-million-year-old ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) - A high school student and her biology teacher recently discovered a 30-million-year-old fossil whale skeleton on a farm owned by the student’s family in Monroe County, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) - A high school student and her biology teacher recently discovered a 30-million-year-old fossil whale skeleton on a farm owned by the student’s family in Monroe ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) - A high school student and her biology teacher recently discovered a 30-million-year-old fossil whale skeleton on a farm owned by the student’s family in Monroe ...