At first, the day looks like a classic fossil beach hunt: rough waves, shell layers, cliff falls, and the hope of finding a shark tooth. Then a small fragment changes everything. They identify it as ...

Molly Sampson, age nine, knew exactly what she wanted for Christmas this past December: a pair of insulated wading boots. With the boots, she told her mom, she could go out into the water at Calvert ...

A comprehensive new scientific volume examining fossil elephants, land mammals and seals from Calvert Cliffs has been published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press and is now available online ...

An amazing discovery along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay dating back 10 million years soon will be displayed to the public in Calvert County, Maryland. Along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay ...

Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil hunting. Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017 ...