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How to Build the World’s Highest Mountain
The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest elevation on Earth, contain fossils of trilobites ... Many of the GHS rocks ...
This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of Life
Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...
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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago ...
Smartphones and fast fashion: New book asks what future civilizations will learn from ‘technofossils’
Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...
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‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
During the extraction of the overlying rock, which spans many miles and dates to the Early Jurassic period, fossil footprints such as these can be found. “There are definitely many more fossils ...
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New fossil discovery reveals how volcanic deposits can preserve the microscopic details of animal tissues
An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...
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Over 60 Early Jurassic dinosaur footprints discovered on a rock that’s been at an Australian school for two decades
During the extraction of the overlying rock, which spans many miles and dates to the Early Jurassic period, fossil footprints such as these can be found. “There are definitely many more fossils ...