These fossils provide an exceptional window into ... the richest assemblage of terrestrial vertebrates from the entire Paleozoic Era. The abundance of largely disarticulated skeletons is likely ...

This reptilian skin fossil belongs to a creature from the early Paleozoic era that led terrestrial and aquatic life. Being the oldest known specimen of animal skin, this incredible discovery ...

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 million years ... We suggest using a threefold approach to connect with the investigations in the Fossil Kit. Each group working on an ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have been found suggest they were ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most ... which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to protect ...

William Paterson professor Martin Becker is suing the New Jersey university after it allegedly caused his collection of 380-million-year-old fossils to end up in a Nashville landfill.

3. # 2004 Astraeospongia. Another Paleozoic calcareous sponge. Find a star-shaped spicule. The Sponge was a dish-shaped mass of organic material around these spicules. This fossil is essentially the ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...