Peat is compacted plant material with much of the original ... able to figure this out without looking it up). 22. Is this a mold or a cast? How do you know? What information does this fossil tell you ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

Government food safety inspectors reported 69 "noncompliances" with federal safety standards at a Boar's Head deli meat plant in Jarratt ... "black patches of mold," a "rancid smell in the ...

This committee covers the mechanical design, engineering, fabrication, installation, testing, and protection of fossil power plant instrumentation sensing and control lines. The boundaries of their ...

Scientists recently uncovered Asia's oldest known fossil of an ornithischian dinosaur with an impressive 193 million years old age belonging to a plant-eater species named Archaeocursor asiaticus.

It’s not just animal and plant remains that can be fossilised. Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or ...

Cerapodans were a group of small, plant-eating dinosaurs that hopped on ... represents the world’s oldest cerapodan.” The fossil dates back approximately 168 million years to the Bathonian ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843 ... The problem—it also belonged with nothing else. It was apparently not a plant, animal, or fungus. “Having found no support for the most ...