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Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...
A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...
A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his ...
Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...
An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books were bound using seal skin. In their paper published in the journal Royal ...
A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...
These types of fossils are called ammolite in Canada, where they are better known. Ammolite is a rare gemstone that forms from the fossilized shells of ammonites, an extinct group of shelled ...