The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all ...

Led by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the team collected over 4,000 fossil eggshell fragments from 20 ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Skeletal reconstruction and tooth arrangement of Netsepoye from the Late Mississippian of Montana. Teeth are arranged as if ...

For 50 years, the region was known for just one type of fossil eggshell ... The Mussentuchit Member is a sedimentary rock layer that is part of Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation, where the first ...