for the earliest organisms)….Roger Benson explains how a fossil is different from a skeleton, and shows many of the types of ...

Uncovering the fossil record requires scientists with many different areas of expertise ... the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

They said the fossils are different from other ammonites at the genus level because their irregular paper-clip pattern starts to curl up in a regular whorl. It was the first new type of ammonite ...

They were given the opportunity to handle the different types of fossils and even uncover a dinosaur skull! They particularly loved using the paintbrushes and measuring the skull to find out which ...