Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the fossilized Capitan Reef now forms craggy peaks and iconic cliffs like El ...

S et a time machine to around 275 million years ago and the Guadalupe Mountains would look like another world. Instead of ...

36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada, were examined. (Photo: Getty) Evolution has been one of the ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...

Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record Date: April 8, 2025 Source: University College London Summary: The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before ...

These layers, laden with marine fossils, serve as a geological record of ancient life forms, including trilobites, brachiopods, and other marine fauna that thrived during this era. Exploring these ...

These layers, laden with marine fossils, serve as a geological record of ancient life forms, including trilobites, brachiopods, and other marine fauna that thrived during this era. Exploring these ...

Several partial fossil skeletons of Batrachotomus are known from sites in Baden-Württemberg. It looked like a crocodile with long, upright limbs and was an agile, four-legged predator that grew up to ...

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FILE - Liam Sawyer, of Indianapolis, charges his 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, March 8, 2024, at an electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) ...