In this video I was lucky enough to find something most people don't associate with Florida... CRYSTALS! My friend Derek ...

Hip-hop mogul and Def Jam founder Russell Simmons is not happy with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, especially its announcement of the 2006 inductees: Black Sabbath, the Sex Pistols ...

Recommend a good book or online article on the physical processes of fossilization. In all the science books I've read, "fossil" is the one of the most vaguely defined terms. 3 billion year old ...

A n arresting photograph showing acougar lying serenely at the bottom of a lake has circulated widely online, with many believing it captures the first steps in the animal’s fossilization.While ...

So fossilization is a very rare occurrence." Duncan Murdock, a research fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. "But then if you play the numbers game and think about how many ...

During the time of fossilization, about 183 million years ago, high global temperatures sapped oxygen from the oceans. To determine if the fossils did indeed form in an oxygen-deprived environment ...

In the case of this rugose coral, however, the silica has taken on a different crystalline form during the fossilization and diagenesis process, it forms Chalcedony and appear as this unique pattern ...

Many feathered dinosaurs couldn’t fly — at least, not like birds do today. But the reptiles’ feathers may have been more birdlike than scientists thought. Yet fossilization can change ...

Fossilization is rare. However, you can kind of prime your luck by dying in certain environments. You want to die and get buried in an environment where you get buried really quickly.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Folks flocked to the Academy of Natural Sciences this weekend for Paleopalooza -- an exploration and celebration of all things prehistoric. The fossil festival offered close ...

Taphonomy, or the study of the fossilization process, has been part of paleontology since the 1950s, when the term was coined by Ivan Yefremov, ...