This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Fossil find pushes back the emergence of animals by millions of years. Andrew Masterson reports.
An Illinois coal mine holds a snapshot of life on earth 300 million years ago, when a massive earthquake "froze" a swamp in time
Science is usually an easy subject to make exciting and interesting for students. However, there are some science topics that can be a little...shall we say...dry. Teaching rocks and minerals can most definitely be a dry science topic, but - it doesn't have to be!&am
This ammonite is on display in our Elements gallery.
Exhibition of fossils in the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, which is home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia.
Determining a Sequence of Geologic Events Law of Original Horizontality: Sedimentary rock layers were originally deposited in horizontal...
Tiny hermie log
Solenastrea hyades (Dana, 1846) - fossil coral from the Pleistocene of North Carolina, USA. (5.3 centimeters across at its widest) Scleractinians are significant reef-building organisms in Earth's warm, shallow oceans. They first appear in the Triassic and are the only group of stony corals in modern oceans (in the Paleozoic, tabulates and rugosans were the principal stony coral groups). Scleractinian corals consist of individuals or colonies of gelatinous polyps that secrete hard calcareous (CaCO3) skeletons. Most live in warm, tropical to subtropical, photic zone environments (the shallow portions of the world’s oceans where sunlight penetrates). Scleractinian corals are predators - they have stinging cells (nematocysts) in their tentacles that paralyze prey. They also obtain sustenance from microbes called zooxanthellae (usually dinoflagellates) that live in their tissues and need to be in sunlight to manufacture food by photosynthesis. The food is shared with the host coral. Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Scleractinia, Faviina, Faviidae Stratigraphy: Croatan Formation (a.k.a. James City Formation), Lower Pleistocene Locality: probably the Lee Creek Mine near the town of Aurora, southern shore of Pamlico Sound, southern Beaufort County, eastern North Carolina, USA
You’re strolling along the shoreline of Lake Michigan combing the beach for interesting stones and driftwood or perhaps beach glass. You find a common gray beach stone and admire it for the s…
Encased in Myanmar amber, 100-million year old prehistoric flowers are the subject of a new study that shows how they are related to species in Australia.
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