Explore the layers of soil with simple LEGO bricks and with an edible soil layers model. See tectonic plates in action with this hands-on project. Grab some colored sand and glue for this fun layers of the earth
Are dinosaurs real? Most people don't have to travel too far to answer that question in the affirmative with some kind of exhibit displaying dinosaur fossils. Or simply look at any bird you can see outside your home.
He had helped me to collect the fossils that I was discussing, and I had also raided his private collection for relevant specimens. He read the paper for me and replied, as you did in those days, with an airmail 'flimsy.' His one major comment was one that I cherish twenty-five ...
Baminornisfossils were found in the Zhenghe Fauna, the southernmost known Late Jurassic site with bird-like species. The fossils here are preserved in dark mudstones and shales, which formed in ancient lakes and swamps. Alongside bird fossils, researchers have uncovered shallow-water fish, turtles...
Pallasites are believed to have formed at the core/mantle boundary of large asteroids and are among the most sought after of meteorite collectibles. Imilac is a particularly stable pallasite and examples such as this one, with clear and colorful crystals, are highly prized by collectors. ...
Clearly, a great deal of our genetic heritage must have been formed long before Homo sapiens appeared, during the evolution of mammals (which started about 300 million years ago) and even earlier. Because the proteins of mammals as different as whales and humans are very similar, the ...
“Hunt for Galactic Fossils,” an ambitious research project she’d recently led as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. By measuring the composition, temperature, and surface gravity of a huge number of stars, she’d been able to pick out 689 of them that don’t look like ...
Kunming Stone Forest is famous for its stones and great natural scenery. It has 5 parts, Small Stone Forest, Big Stone Forest, Lizi Yuanqing, Bushaoshan, and Qingzhang Diecui. Those stones formed at 3 billion years in various shapes are its highlight, some look like animals, some like pe...
To look back in time, the researchers studied recently discovered amber fossils, allowing them to explore delicate, three-dimensional feather structures. Their studies show that ancient feathers had the same basic architecture but with more primitive characteristics. For instance, adjacent barbs formed ...
are not preserved in fossils, and the muscles of modern fish fins are completely different from those of tetrapod limbs. The team spent several years trying to answer the question, how exactly did the few simple muscles of a fin become dozens of muscles that perform ...