Searching for Fossils Gives Clues to the Past
National Fossil Dayoccurs onWednesday of the 2ndfull week of Octoberas part of Earth Science Week. The National Park Service and the American Geoscience Institute invite paleontologists and park rangers to discuss fossils found on public lands at special events nation-wide on that day. Every year ...
The fossils help to provide information on the period of the existence of the organism. They also provide data on the morphology and ancestral lineage of the members of a particular species. So the fossils can help convey information for life ...
“Lots of tardigrade folks have pondered these fossils over the last 60 years, but there was a hard limit to how much could be gleaned because the tardigrades were really small and a bit obscured by the amber,” New Jersey Institute of Technology biologist...
Scientists have finally managed to describe the back end of one of the key fossil finds of the past 10 years. Known as Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old creature is considered pivotal because it has many features that look half-way between fish and land animals. As such, it provides ...
Over time, small particles called sediment build up over the top and harden into rock. These clues of the remains of these animals and plants are preserved for scientists to find thousands of years later. These type of fossils are called body fossils. Our Dino Dig activity is a great ...
and enthusiastic collectors I’ve met anywhere; theCincinnati Museum Center, which hosted the conference and keynote talk (more on that soon); and thePaleontological Society, which was ably represented at the mini-conference by their current president, past president, and other officers and members...
Welcome to theEdiacaran Period, the span of earth history from 635-542 million years ago, and a time when actualism – the precept that the present is the key to the past – becomes a naïve, idealistic dream, a glib summary of a world that has only existed for a mere 12% of earth...
Colin Nickerson
The prominent questions here include how much time the conchs spent in the water column after death, how long they sat on the seafloor before burial, and what diagenetic processes caused them to be filled with sediment. Trace fossils found in the conch interiors provide important clues about ...