Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools –tools that scientists could also use to look for evidence of life on Mars in rocks that may be similar on both planets.
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66 million years ago, a fish chewed up and spit out food. It’s now a fossil in Denmark
The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it’s a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism’s daily life.
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Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird’s brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.
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Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe
There’s an area in China that’s home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.
