One of the shop’s most popular attractions is its selection of geodes. These unassuming round rocks hold a secret: crack them open, and you’ll find a dazzling crystal interior. It’s like nature’s own ...

Sedimentation is controlled by them, and the stratigraphic series constitutes a record, written on tablets of stone ... Dominance of trilobites Oldest known fossils Primitive marine invertebrates ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

A fossil site in Morocco has been called the “Pompeii of trilobites” as it contains sublimely detailed fossilised moulds of the creatures, preserved after a pyroclastic ash flow from a ...

Despite over 22,000 known species of trilobites described and documented over 300 million years from the beginning of the Cambrian, the number of fossil specimens with intact internal anatomy is ...

When phosphate miners in Morocco accidentally uncovered a fossil in 2021, it seemed too good to be true. Nick Longrich, a paleontologist from the University of Bath, examined the jawbone and four ...

A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. It seems Sharon Stone is not the only powerful person in her family. In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress ...

The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living fossils," in the deep waters near the German Channel. The sighting ...

A local amateur fossil hunter made the find on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke found some unusual fragments, which turned out to ...

Now, researchers are trying to solve the puzzle presented by a collection of humanlike fossils that have defied ... The researchers believe Stone Age farmers buried the “sun stones” in ...