Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

For the first time, a giant alatoconchid bivalve fossil has been discovered by researchers in Central China's Hubei Province, ...

Fossils washed up onto the shore contain plant remains, fish scales and corals. Red Wharf Bay, Wales - You can find coral fossils, Brachiopods and crinoid pieces here in Red Wharf Bay.

This desert landscape with mountains, canyons, and the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef was once a thriving sea.

The layer has produced fossils of marine invertebrates, including at least 15 species of trilobites and four species of brachiopods (a type of mollusk). Trilobites are a remarkable group of ...

Their blue copper-based blood, which is vital for medical testing, and their steadfast evolutionary conservatism have earned them the title of “living fossils” par excellence. Brachiopod fossil. Image ...

Earth’s history is marked by catastrophic events that have wiped out the majority of species living at different times. These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a ...

I have wide-ranging experience and expertise in the systematics of fossil invertebrates, ranging from brachiopods to Paleozoic arthropods, but most of my work focuses on Phylum Echinodermata (starfish ...

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