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The Earliest Known Horse Weighed 3.9 Kilograms. Then, It Went To Space
Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...
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Lab #1: Fossil Preservation
The recent shells retain the organic material that give the shells ... The process may be aragonite crystallizing to calcite, as in fossil snails, or it may be the growth of larger crystals of an ...
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Snail shells, a ‘once-in-a-millennium’ storm and what it all means for climate studies in China
The paper said the work could be extended to a large number of fossil snail shells preserved in the Loess Plateau in north-central China that might reconstruct a relationship of extreme rainstorms ...
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Stable Isotope Analysis of Land Snail Shells
This research lays the groundwork for using fossil snail shells to reconstruct seasonal precipitation distributions and extreme rainfall events in the geological past. In high latitude regions ...
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Florida Museum fossils go to space
The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.