A fossil discovered in a rock on display at the Nariwa Museum of Art in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Fossil-bearing rocks on Spitsbergen that produce the earliest ichthyosaur remains. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

But when examined by paleontologists, his find revealed something much different: prehistoric fossils bearing evidence that, sometime between 11.6 million and 23 million years ago, one particular ...

Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps," a photographic presentation of Kern County's two fossil-bearing seep locations. In Kern, fossils found at tar seeps on ...

It's some of the best evidence yet for Darwin's theory of evolution. A section of a 2.3 billion-year-old fossil-bearing rock. The fossils (the dark areas) are essentially identical to ones that ...

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To collect fossils in this area, you need a permit granted by the Council for Geoscience. Fossil-bearing rocks are protected by law because of their heritage and scientific value.