Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...
Understanding the Earth’s previous mass extinctions may be the key to saving ourselves from the next one. Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for ...
For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...
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Mosasaurs Once Lived in Earth's Oceans—and Paleontologists Found Their Fossils in New Jersey
Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.
Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...
Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.
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