Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...
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 ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.
A new study finds that shells of the polar plankton Neogloboquadrina pachyderma can record two distinct chemical signals, potentially distorting reconstructions of past ocean temperatures. Researchers ...
A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried under the school. Scientists believe the area was once fully underwater, ...
An amateur fossil hunter recently discovered a rare fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile in Lyme Regis, so what is ...