Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Introduction : Milestones in the study of biominerals : a summary of the discontinuous and somewhat erratic path of research on their formation and properties -- The concept of microstructural ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Introduction -- Purpose -- Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy -- Types of preservation and methods of study.

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...