A two-day fossil hunt through Alabama’s old coal mine tailings turned into a prehistoric rainforest reveal. The group found calamites, fern fragments, and plant fossils from a world that existed ...

The hunt starts with hammers, chisels, and the hope of finding the right rock. Fern bits, Lepidodendron bark, Calamites, ...

Fossilised true ferns (Pecopteris sp.) preserved in siderite concretions from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (Illinois) presented a unique opportunity to characterise the organic signatures of these late ...

According to a research team led by paleontologists from the University of Vienna, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but ...

The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a contemporary landscape dotted with extinct volcanoes show this wasn't always the case. Between 40 and 20 ...

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