Tag: "fossils" at biology news New process by Temple grad
student can place loose fossils back into the strata or
determine fakes ...tists have a new tool to aid them in placing
loose fossils back into the earths strata or determining the
fossils legitimacy. Paleontologists need to know where a fossil
goes in the strata in order to understand t... Rare fossilized
tube feet suggest functional shift through time ... often
destroyed the delicate details preserved in fossils in the
Hunsrueck Slate, X-ray techniques that peer into the rock have
long been employed. But X-rays, especially older ones, can yield
controversial images, Glass said. Some paleontologists have
argued that what appear to be soft tissues preserved i... April
GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights ...lly. But why? Thimble-
sized, spring-shaped, 400 Ma fossils of extinct ocean-going
animals called spiraliform ... 363-366. This paper describes
articulated sponge fossils from an exceptionally preserved biota
in the Lower Cambrian--the Hetang biota