Amber piece showing most large inclusions

Coastal organisms trapped in 99-million-year-old amber

The illustration shows the wing of Alcmonavis poeschli as it was found in the limestone slab. Alcmonavis poeschli is the second known specimen of a volant bird from the Jurassic period.

Archaeopteryx gets company

Fine grains of dolomite form on anaerobic microbial mats under various environmental conditions.

Recreating ancient minerals

Red diamond

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Petoskey stone

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Subduction Zone - Earth

How life on Earth affected its inner workings

a. Fossil; b. restoration, scale bar equal 10 mm; c. melanosomes of the membranous wing (mw); d. histology of the bony stomach content (bn). st, styliform element; gs, gastroliths Credit: WANG Min

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Reconstructed skull and lower jaw of Acherontiscus caledoniae

Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapod

Fossil casts of Australopithecus afarensis (left), Homo habilis (center), and Australopithecus sediba (right)

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North Carolina’s Black River

Oldest known trees in eastern North America documented

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