Rare fossils of ancient ice-cream-cone-shaped creatures are helping scientists piece together how organisms evolved during a period called the Cambrian explosion, when organisms changed rapidly ...

The chalky shells of the fossils found on the eastern Avalon Peninsula are shaped like a longish cone and subdivided ... are distant relatives of the spiral-shaped nautilus, but clearly differ ...

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even beyond that it's the first fossil record of plant viviparity involving seed germination," he said. "I find it fascinating that the seeds in this small pine cone could start to germinate ...

And it looked like a tiny ice cream cone. The paleontologists who found the fossil have no idea what it was. They know it lived alongside ancient plankton during the Ordovician era, several ...

One branch on the tree of life is heavier as a team of scientists has determined what a bizarre group of extinct cone-shaped animals ... a group with a rich fossil record though few species ...

Just as age and weathering have washed the colors from classic Greek statutes, so has time leached pigments from cone snail fossils, found in the Dominican Republic and ranging from 4.8 million ...

A) A reconstruction of the specimen that shows the creature's body mass (white) poking out of the 'spindle'-shaped cone; B) Fossil's body showcasing with at least one spike on the side of the body ...

Gymnosperms, cone-bearing plants such as conifers ... Among the most beautiful fossils of marine life were left by the spiral shells of the ammonites. Editor's note: Updated on April 17, 2013 ...

“But the fossil record of cycads is poorly understood, and many things that have been called cycads have turned out not to be cycads at all. Here, we have a three-dimensionally preserved cone clearly ...

National Museum of Natural History At Agate Fossil Beds National Monument near the town of Harrison, Nebraska, visitors can view in the outcropping a curious spiral-shaped fossil called Daimonelix ...