Imagine an ear falling off a first century Roman statue and you’ll get an idea of what someone found at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Arizona. Photos of the fossil — yes, it’s assumed to ...

or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways.

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...

Strontium is also released by deep-sea vents. Geochemist Donald DePaolo and geologist ... as well as the age of mollusks and ...

The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the ... similar to the features of some living sea turtle species.Credit...Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff ...

They are very common fossils in rocks over 66 million years old. Brachiopods are filter feeding animals that live in the sea. They look very similar to bivalves, as they also have two shells. The best ...

The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Britain’s two biggest offshore oil and gas developments have been blocked from producing any fossil fuels after a judge ...

Britain's approvals for two vast North Sea oil and gas fields were overturned by a Scottish court on Thursday, a significant ...