Collecting fossils

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The Florida Museum of Natural History is hosting “Ask a Paleontologist” events from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 12, March 4, April 15 and May 6. Florida Museum vertebrate paleontology collections manager Richard Hulbert and Florida Museum ...  

The Ventura Gem and Mineral Society will present its 50th annual Gem, Mineral, Lapidary and Fossil Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat., March 3 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun., March 4 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd.read more  

(Lincoln City, Oregon) – There is some good news for agate hunters on the central Oregon coast – and February 18 is the date for a time-tripping look on a 5,000-mile paleo journey from a pair of “paleo-nerds,” happening at the Surftides in Lincoln ...  

DOWNLOAD: Beach Fossils - "Shallow" (MP3) Captured Tracks signee Mac DeMarco, who has an upcoming Brooklyn show opening for labelmates Beach Fossils at MHOW on 3/2, just scheduled his own show, which will happen one day later at Glasslands (3/3)....  

Numerous fossils -- including some collected by Charles Darwin -- have been rediscovered in an old wooden cabinet that had been tucked away in a dark corner of the British Geological Survey (BGS) headquarters in the UK, reports The Telegraph. The “treasure trove” of fossils was found by Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, undoubtedly by accident. The fossils had been lost to science for nearly 165...  

A ‘treasure trove’ of fossils including plant specimens collected by Charles Darwin, has been rediscovered. The fossils, which have been lost for 165 years, were unearthed in an old cabinet at the British Geological Survey’s vast fossil collection. They now have been registered and photographed and are available for viewing by the public through a new online museum exhibit at: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives...  

INDORE: The Narmada Valley fossils can provide a deep insight into the past and would unravel ... Incidents were reported in past when people use fossils as stone for constructing house, an incident was reported in Jabalpur where an affluent ...  

An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus -- revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behavior in early dinosaurs.  

British scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of Charles Darwin fossils that have been lost for more than 150-years. | 'I spotted some drawers marked "unregistered fossil plants",' he recalls. 'I can't resist a mystery, so I pulled one open. What I found inside made my jaw drop!' Inside were hundreds of fossil plants, polished into thin translucent sheets known as 'thin sections' and captured in glass slides so they could be studied...  

I was having a conversation with a Christian and he actually told me that fossils prove God exists. Note that he didn’t say that fossils present strong evidence for the existence of God, but that they actually prove it. This clown assured me that he was well versed in science, too. The only thing I [...]  

However, despite the brisk trade in fake eggs, experts believe that many genuine and valuable fossils have been smuggled out of the country and they vow to curb the illegal practice. China has so far recovered more than 5,000 fossils, including an ...  

Fine details about the creature became clear only after submerging the fossils underwater or subjecting them to polarized light under the microscope, she said. Although the Ontario museum has been collecting fossils from the site since 1983, "it really did ...  

Many people think igneous rocks cannot contain fossils. However, the following micrograph shows fossilized neurons in a thin section of basalt, which is an igneous rock formed from volcanic lava: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315=22 ...  

A "treasure trove" of fossils - including some collected by Charles Darwin - has been rediscovered in an old cabinet. The fossils - which had been lost for some 165 years - were found by chance in the vaults of the British Geological Survey HQ near ...