Fossils predating the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years have been found in a paving stone in a Scottish city centre. Thousands of people have walked over the remains of 385 million-year ...
In Los Angeles, we look ahead. But even here, reminders of the past sometimes come to the surface: two weeks ago, ancient fossils were discovered at the Metro’s westside extension construction site.
after a century of it being "locked inside a block of stone". Researchers used powerful X-ray scans to examine the fossil, found a century ago in Scotland. Their study produced the first full ...
In a quarry in southern Germany, encased in limestone, a nearly perfect fossil has been waiting patiently to rewrite the story of flight. The fossil, a pterosaur with a stiff, sword-like tail ...
From these books I discovered that my 'curiosities' were actually fossils; ancient creatures whose bodies were imprinted in what would become stone. This brought to life the seafront and the ...