This was my very first time creek walking in Alabama, and I had no idea what to expect. As I followed the creek, old ...

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 ...

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.

Alabama Museum of Natural History Director Dr. John Friel recently found an unusual surprise in the waters of Aliceville’s Shark Tooth Creek. The discovery has been identified as “a very rare, 84 ...

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 ...

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 ...