The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.
More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...
Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...
But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...
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Ancient Romans Loved Fossils Just as Much as We Do, Even Though They May Not Have Fully Understood What They Were
Writing about 100 years after the death of the Roman emperor Augustus, the historian Suetonius noted the leader’s fascination with fossils. Ruling from 63 B.C.E. to 14 C.E. the emperor prominently ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.
Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
Routine parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first ...
This marks the first fossil excavations near the Quarry Exhibit Hall since 1924.
A crew performing construction work at the Dinosaur National Monument recently got an unexpected glimpse into prehistory – ...
The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...
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