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They searched for fossils - then found something stranger in the rocks

A river hunt for ancient sea fossils takes a strange turn when the group starts finding unusual lightweight rocks that don’t behave like normal stone. Some show early signs of crystal formation—almost ...
EcoPortal.net

Scientists cracked open 160-million-year-old rocks from a French riverbed and found a creature that looks almost exactly like something alive in the ocean today, and th…

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...
ZME Science

This Fossil Sat in Storage for 40 Years Before Scientists Realized It Was Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Bone

Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British ...
The Vindicator

Speaker focuses on fossils found in Ohio

Correspondent photo / Karla Dines Donna Campbell of Warren attends a talk at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library on Ohio fossils WARREN — Just how abundant fossils are in Ohio, and what types of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled ‘Baby Lamprey,’ Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land ...