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Last time you saw me I was hiking through the woods looking at fossils in the rocks. Now I've brought back a collection of my findings and it's time to take an up-close look and my haul. Join me as I ...
A Church Point man found an unusual object in his backyard. It turned out to be the massive tooth of an ancient, ...
Anderson will share some of his stories at the Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show – put on by the Black Hawk Gem & Mineral Society – at the Waterloo Center for the Arts, 225 Commercial St., on Sunday. The ...
Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...
The rock—originally pulled from the ... The community was unknowingly walking the collection of Early Jurassic period fossils every day, until Romilio’s work defining dinosaur tracks was ...
“We never expected to find delicate tissues such as feathers preserved in a volcanic rock.” Using electron microscopes and chemical tests, the researchers analysed samples of the fossil ...
The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology collection.
The fossilized rocks sometimes pop open on their own ... wet environment and preceded the trees we know today. Each fossil in the collection is accompanied by a detailed tag that lists the ...
“Collecting fossils at McGrath Flat is a highlight for me every year. Splitting the rust-red slabs of rock is like opening an ancient book, revealing the creatures that inhabited an Australian ...