The study, led by PhD student Jonathan Jung, pushes back fossil evidence of the first known coral symbiosis by over 170 ...

The symbiotic relationship between corals and their photosynthetic algal partners (photosymbionts) goes back at least to the ...

1. Identify a fossil as a sponge, archeocyathid, rugose, tabulate or scleractinian coral. 2. Know the skeletal structure and material of each of these animals. 3. Know the ecological characteristics ...

The ammonoid (the round, snail-ish fossil) has been replaced by pyrite. Pyrite formation requires an absence of oxygen (or the iron would oxidize) in reducing conditions, usually acidic. Replacement ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

In this supplementary monograph, originally published 1866–72, the English geologist Peter Martin Duncan (1824–91) treats only those British fossil corals that were unknown to Edwards and Haime in ...

It was the 1920s, and scientists were searching far and wide for fossils of human ancestors. The question of where humans evolved was open, and while Charles Darwin had claimed it might be Africa ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence ... 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock ...

A damning new report by Textile Exchange has revealed that the production of fossil fuel-based fabrics, such as polyester, is on the rise despite sustainability efforts in the industry.

Vice President Kamala Harris would not support an expansion of fossil fuel drilling despite her recent campaign boasts about domestic oil production under the Biden administration. "Just to be ...