(CNN) — Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable ...

A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly described fossils of Edmontosaurus annectens—a duck-billed dinosaur that ...

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