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 ...
The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...
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 ...