Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...

Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits ... body fossil is made up of exactly the same material as when it entered the rock record. Teeth are a good example as ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind of pattern. The well-preserved fossil record of bryozoans shows that one species first appeared about 140 ...

Molecular studies suggested these organisms existed during this period ... “Ecdysozoans were prevalent in the Cambrian fossil record and we know they didn’t just appear out of nowhere.

In a recent study published in Current Biology, researchers introduced Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old, worm-like organism found ... in the Cambrian fossil record, and we know they didn ...

The fossil record refers to all the fossils that we know from the rocks around us. ‘It goes from when we get the first single-celled organisms, all the way through to the ancestors of humans today and ...

One way we can understand the effect of climate change is to look at the geological past - millions of years ago - and the fossil record, to see what happened to organisms during periods of time in ...

Rare find, likely from prehistoric fish, sheds light on ancient ecosystems, food chains, say experts - Anadolu Ajansı ...

"We have a spotty record of this transition ... the history of modern organisms than is currently supposed. "The Arctic may be an important place for evolution as well," Rybczynski said. Berta, ...