Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils can be formed in two major ways. Casts occur when the ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Shark tooth fossils in sandstone matrix, Lamna obliqua, Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago), ... [+] Morocco, (Specimen courtesy of Ron Stebler, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA), (Photo by Wild ...

Authorities say the pair took a rare dolphin jaw and teeth fossils from the Mace Brown ... box addressed to Sarah Boessenecker filled with petrified wood that was labeled “definitely not stolen ...

Though distinct disciplines, both paleontology and archaeology use similar technologies and methods in their work and show ...