Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex–structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide–are present in abundance in fossils of ...
Blacksburg, Va. -- A study of fossils from the Paleozoic Era, collected across the world, reveals that ancient brachiopods were little bothered by predators. However, the rare predation traces left on ...
The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville State ...
Researchers describe unusual trilobite fossils prepared as thin sections showing the 3D soft tissues during enrollment. The study reveals the soft undersides of enrolled trilobites and the ...
ANY RECREATIONAL DRUGS. A NEW EXHIBIT IS OPEN AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. IT IS CALLED ANCIENT LIFE AND SHOWCASES SOME OF NEW MEXICO’S OLDEST LIFE FORMS. I BEGAN ...
The New Mexico landscape is full of prehistory and, if you know what you’re looking for, you might be able to spot some remnants of that rich past. Dr. Thomas Williamson, the curator of paleontology ...
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Scientists unearthed a 326-million-year-old car-sized millipede fossil that once crawled across Earth before the dinosaurs
A fossil uncovered by chance on a remote beach in northern England has revealed one of the most extraordinary creatures to ...
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The oldest leech ever found looks nothing like today’s bloodsuckers
The oldest leech ever discovered has turned out to be a shape shifter of expectations, preserving a body plan that looks nothing like the streamlined bloodsuckers that haunt horror movies and hospital ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.30347260.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30347260.3 The fossil record in the state of Alabama is very rich and much more varied than most ...
“Just scrape the ground in central Texas and you’ll expose fossils,” says Linda McCall, 62, an avocational paleontologist who has donated hundreds of thousands of mostly mollusk and other invertebrate ...
How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...
This fossil appears to be the skin of a reptile but it’s actually from a plant that lived 320 million years ago in what is present day Alabama. Alabama Museum of Natural History photo A rare fossil ...
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