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Scientists Just Found a Fossil That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known Life Form — What Is It?
A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...
Scientists Discovered the Tunnels of a Possibly Unknown Ancient Lifeform
For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...
‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...
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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...
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Amazing 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil Found in The Australian Desert
An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the ...
Immaculate Feather Fossil Reveals the Unlikely Preserving Power of Volcanoes
A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.
What tiny fossils from ocean floor tell us about the history of climate change
Scientists have discovered the key role the Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays in regulating the global climate ...
The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Discovery of a new species of fossil tree helps paint picture of ancient African forest
Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...
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Technofossils: How future archeologists will study our everyday objects
But over the last 70 years — little more than moments in the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens — the amount of stuff we’ve added to the planet has erupted in volume, surpassing living organisms ...
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‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
Ichnospecies are organisms identified only through trace fossils, or fossils that are of impressions they leave, such as footprints, rather than the actual organisms. The discovery represents one ...