“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the potential to serve as a reliable geochronometer in Mesozoic and Cenozoic ...
Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop has been around since 1970, but the contents of its basement have witnessed all of human history and another three billion years beyond that. Featuring gemstones, ...
The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ...
One of the latest projects is a new travertine façade for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in New York ...
Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised ...
The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...
An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment ...
Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...
Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...