Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Researchers Astounded to Find a 9-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil in Exceptional Condition; Is Ancestor to Great White Shark ...

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

Relative dating to determine the age of rocks and fossils Geologists have established a set of principles that can be applied to sedimentary and volcanic rocks that are exposed at the Earth's ...

By examining trace fossils, scientists can reconstruct past ecological dynamics and sedimentary processes, enhancing our knowledge of Earth's geological history. One significant area of study is ...

The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all ...

The government said the conservation department in March informed its Antiquities and Monuments Office about a sedimentary rock containing substances suspected to be vertebrate fossils.

with the goal of better understanding how chemical sedimentary rocks (e.g., carbonates, chert, iron formations) record chemical, physical, and biological paleoenvironmental conditions. Chemical ...

Coal, oil and gas are the three fossil fuels. They are all non-renewable ... were buried under layers of earth and sand that slowly became sedimentary rock. Over millions of years, the dead ...