A fossilised sea urchin found on Compton Bay, a beach on the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight ... Watershoot Bay’s remote location, cliffs and unstable rocks mean you must take great care when ...

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

The team has discovered high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks, and unearthed crucial clues to advance understanding of the ancient Tethys Ocean, the supercontinents of Gondwana 2 ...

It was the mouth plate of an ancient stingray, a tiny bit of fossil that can easily be mistaken for a rock or bleached ... washed out into the ocean and nobody will ever find it again.” ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the discovery of an innovative method for dating ancient sediments.

some 400 million years before such capabilities were incorporated into the first animals,” said Strother, a research professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College.

Surprisingly, though, the fossil examples lived in the sea, giving a ... them from the rocks, so we all need to get back to the collections, back to our labs, and find out how common they really ...

A new study finds large amounts of “white hydrogen” may exist within mountain ranges, raising hopes this clean-burning gas ...

Dinosaurs are land animals, so to have been preserved in these types of rocks they would have had to be washed into the sea. While large marine reptile fossils such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs ...