MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A new national study says Alabama's Creek Indian casinos have experienced record-setting growth for the fourth year due to the state's crackdown on privately operated casino.

On a summer day in July 2025, UA Museums paleontologist Dr. John Friel was scanning the gravel bars of a Greene County creek when he stumbled on an unexpected prize. Buried among the river pebbles, he ...

A “shiny” fossil found in an Alabama creek has been identified as the tooth of a large dinosaur that doesn’t quite belong at the site, experts say. Hadrosaurs were land-dwellers, but the tooth ...

The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts fossil hunting events at a privately owned creek a 50-mile drive southwest from the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The hadrosaur tooth was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s Creek Indian casinos have experienced record-setting growth for the fourth year in a row due to the state’s crackdown on privately operated casino, according to a ...