Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Numerical ages estimate the date of a geological event and can sometimes reveal quite precisely when a fossil species existed in time. Third, magnetism in rocks can be used to estimate the age of ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

She said the Heleocola fossil — a piece of jawbone and three molar teeth — was discovered in the lab, in a slab of sandstone ...

16. Concretion: Fossils are frequently found in the middle of concretions (a nodule of well-cemented sediment in the middle of a relatively uncemented sedimentary rock). Indeed, the critter probably ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...

Indeed, as the people of Glen Rose learned, the fossils work nicely as a brick substitute ... material gradually crystallize, ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...

Glen Peters, research director at the Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, said the world was "frustratingly close" to a peak in its fossil fuel emissions ... for example in rock, ...

Utah's Scenic Byway 12 offers a breathtaking journey through some of the most diverse and stunning landscapes in the American ...

Numerical ages estimate the date of a geological event and can sometimes reveal quite precisely when a fossil species existed in time. Third, magnetism in rocks can be used to estimate the age of ...

Ammonite fossils, an example is shown here, are sea creatures that became extinct about 65 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages. Fossils of the simplest organisms ...