Researchers have discovered geometric, hollow, ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils of bizarre marine animals. Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the ...

Iowa does have a state bird (Eastern Goldfinch) and a state flower (wild rose), but it is one of seven states not to have a state fossil, despite the state’s rich fossil history. The University of ...

Missouri’s most common fossil is an invertebrate, the crinoid, also known as “sea lilies”. Despite the name, they’re more ...

Crinoids are marine animals and an ancient fossil group that first appeared about 300 million years before dinosaurs, according to the British Geological Survey. They flourished in the Palaeozoic and ...

Two Slovak scientists found new imprints left by dinosaurs in the High Tatras, casts of footprints preserved hundred million years. “Mr Milan Sýkora discovered the first area with dinosaur imprints in ...

Alice Clement receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” ...

The Eastern goldfinch is Iowa's state bird, and the wild rose is the state flower. Iowa's official rock is the geode, and the oak is the state tree. Now a group of seven Democrats in the Iowa Senate ...

Nature abounds with examples of evolutionary arms races. Certain marine snails, for example, evolved thick shells and spines to avoid be eaten, but crabs and fish foiled the snails by developing shell ...