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

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

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 ...

As these changes have occurred, organisms have evolved, and remnants of some have been preserved as fossils. A fossil can be studied to determine what kind of organism it represents, how the ...

The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, and sedimentary rock. Almost all ...

for the earliest organisms)….Roger Benson explains how a fossil is different from a skeleton, and shows many of the types of fossils that have helped paleontologists to understand the history of ...

The microfossil, discovered at Loch Torridon, contains two distinct cell types and could be the earliest example of complex multicellularity ever recorded, according to the researchers. The fossil ...

This fossil of intact skin was definitely a unique ... and this new find seems to confirm it had different types of skin on ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.