I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

Rocks and fossils found date back from 130 million ... and Pedro Claude Nsungani, a geology professor at the Universidade ...