Get tips from an expert at Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art to help fuel your kid’s interest in rocks — and start their own rock collection. Plus, three great upcoming events perfect for kids. It’s ...

Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on the farm, my brothers, sisters and I had fun gathering all sorts of rocks.

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident. Last year, the Yavapai ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections ...

Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral collectors, study a specimen at Cady Mountains in Mojave Trails ...

Shuffle the event cards and place them face down beside “the Field” A rock collector should always take a collection bag to collect their rocks. But the problem is that it will only hold so many rocks ...

Since my daughter was born three years ago, there are many things she has taught me. Some of the lessons feel profound. I have learned to be less rigid in my vision of what parenting should look like.

Researchers have discovered a brownish piece of split limestone in a site in Croatia that suggests Neanderthals 130,000 years ago collected the rock that stands out among all other items in the cave.

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified as belonging to a U.S. Marine who died in a 1951 training accident decades later. Last year, ...