October 2021

Jurassic Graveyard Reveals Oldest Evidence That Dinosaurs Traveled in Herds

Jurassic Graveyard Reveals Oldest Evidence That Dinosaurs Traveled in Herds. A nest of 192 million-year-old fossilized egg…

Giant Ammonites Once Thrived on Both Sides of Atlantic

Giant Ammonites Once Thrived on Both Sides of Atlantic. This was a replica that we used to show how big ammonites could grow…

Tiny Crab Preserved in 100-million-year-old Amber Lived Among Dinosaurs

Cretapsara athanata, a modern-looking eubrachyuran crab in Burmese amber. Image credit: Luque Scientists have found the olde…

Evidence of Ancient Life Was Discovered Inside a Ruby

A ruby that formed in Earth's crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the plane…

Rare Eocene Grass Spikelet Found Preserved in Baltic Amber

Side view of Eograminis balticus. Image credit: Poinar & Soreng   Amber research by the Oregon State University College …

Earth's Solid Inner Core May Be a Little Bit Mushy

The Earth’s major layers consist of the thin rocky crust, the mantle (very hot but solid rock), the outer core (liquid iron)…

This 390-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossil Had a Bunch of Tiny Eyes Inside Its Eyes

Phacops geesops, a trilobite from the Devonian age. The animal's eyes consist of 200 single lenses each, spanning six sm…

Fossil Footprints Reveal Humans Inhabited North America Over 21,000 Years Ago

Footprints Found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, Providing the Earliest Evidence of Human Activity in the Americ…