They stopped at Kentucky road cuts searching for Ordovician fossils from a time when the area was underwater. At first, the finds looked like ordinary shell fossils scattered through the rock. Then ...

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When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...

Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new study by iC3 researchers has found. The work shows that Neogloboquadrina ...