Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

CNN spoke to the authors of “Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our Ultimate Legacy” to understand which items from our technology-driven civilization are likely to form the fossils of the ...

David adds, 'We don't know about many dinosaurs that lived in jungle or mountain environments. Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' A fish fossil. Nearly all fossils we find are from ...

It formed towering, trunk-like structures ... More tellingly, when they compared the fossil’s chemistry to that of true fungi found in the same site, the results were stark.

The same is true for all organisms throughout history ... can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils can be formed in two major ways. Casts occur when the decaying remains ...

Metamorphic rock is formed when existing rock is transformed under high heat and pressure, which generally destroys any fossils that were in the rock before it was metamorphosed. For example, marble ...

As these changes have occurred, organisms have evolved, and remnants of some have been preserved as fossils ... that cut across strata must have formed after the rocks they cut through (Figures ...

Shelton believes the fossil they found is a true ammolite, even though it was ... similar to pearls, formed from the fossilized shells of ancient cephalopods—mollusks related to modern squids ...