Ancient Burmese Amber
Scorpionfly in Prehistoric Amber Myanmar (Burma) Mid-Cretaceous Period – ~100 MYA Amber is really old tree sap. It mainly comes from conifer trees, such as firs and pines that grew […]
A Dinosaur Dilemma
Nanotyrannus Tooth Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota 70-65 MYA Determination of a new dinosaur species is not an exact science. Paleontologists and laboratory scientists base the species of a given […]
Collision with Mercury
Abee Enstatite Meteorite Alberta, Canada June 9, 1952. Meteorites are known to come from the Moon, the Planet Mars, and many likely from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. […]
Prehistoric Poop
Large Sauropod Coprolite Morrison Formation, Utah 156~147 MYA. Coprolites are the fossilized feces of dinosaurs that were able to remain intact for millions of years. Their existence has helped in […]
Salting the Earth with Life
Murchison Meteorite Murchison, Australia September 28, 1969. How did life appear on Earth? For life to begin and evolve, fundamental structures need to be present. Among these are amino acids […]
A Digit from Prehistoric Times
Edmontosaurus Toe Fossil Hell Creek, Montana 73~66 MYA. Edmontosaurus was a large herbivorous dinosaur discovered by O. Charles Marsh in 1892. Based on fossil finds, Edmontosaurus gathered in herds and […]
The Oldest Matter Known
Allende Meteorite Chihuaua, Mexico February 9, 1969. What is the oldest matter on Earth? The answer to this question is not in the rocks of this planet. It’s in the […]
The Fear of Saur Teeth
Tyrannosaurus rex Tooth Carcharodontosaurus Tooth Spinosaurus Tooth North Dakota/Morocco 7.5 cm./8 cm./7.5 cm. Most theropods, the dinosaurs that bite, possessed sharp teeth with serrated edges. The shape of their teeth […]
Moonstruck
Lunar Meteorite Dar al Gani 262 Al Jufrah, Libya – March, 1997. Meteorites originating from the Moon’s surface are rare. Though there are 371 separate stones discovered that have been […]
A Martian Meteorite
Martian Meteorite NWA 11288 Shergottite (Martian origin) Northwest Africa, 2015. For decades, most meteorite specialists thought the source of all meteorites was the asteroid belt situated between the planets Mars […]