Great Abaco Island has a blue hole, Sawmill Sink, filled with fossils from the Ice Age showing the island's ancient history.

field guide to common fossils in Britain, covering nearly 90 fossil groups interactive map of Britain and geological map overlay illustrations and data for more than 1,200 fossils in the Museum ...

Index fossils are used to work out the age of sedimentary rocks. They’re chosen on the basis of being very common fossils that are found only in rocks laid down in a narrow period of time. When we ...

Northeastern Australia, once submerged under the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous, was home to massive pterosaurs. In 2021, ...

Index fossils occur for a limited interval of time. Usually index fossils are fossil organisms that are common, easily identified, and found across a large area. Because they are often rare ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The theory suggests that fossils of Protoceratops – a species of early horned dinosaur – were discovered by ancient nomads ...

Some of the most famous and best-preserved dinosaur fossils were thought to have been suspended in time due to a massive ...

Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern Europe's animal community shifted between warm and cold climate fluctuations, according to a study published October 23, 2024 in the ...