The irreplaceable fossils got intercepted in transit and ended up in a landfill in Tennessee, according to the lawsuit.

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Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

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"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

Credit: Andrew Bush / National Science Foundation Previous research has yet to determine the cause for either the late Devonian or Ordovician ... likely trigger an ice age.

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Unlike nearly all fossil fish of that age, Palaeospondylus was "naked," lacking ... Surprisingly, these produced a rich collection of Devonian fish microfossils. This was the first evidence ...