Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists passing through the Qianshan Basin. Believed at first to be typical ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

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The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...