At my kindergarten graduation circa 2005, I stood watching my friends confidently announce their future dreams. One by one, ...

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

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During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, archaeologists discovered two Early Cretaceous fossils estimated to be between 145 and 140 million years old that were mixed in with ancient Roman ...

The tubular stems of crinoids and the shells of brachiopods are preserved in the rocks but could easily be missed without a sharp eye.

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.

Excavations on Mogador Island in the 1960s also turned up four brachiopods stashed in a Roman amphora, according to the study.