A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...

“Sometimes we see fossils preserved as opals or quartz crystals, or in this case, fool’s gold,” Brusatte said. “It’s remarkable, like the whole body of this little arthropod has turned ...

It looks at the luminescent properties of quartz crystals, which change with age. Today, a new paper is out with the results, and the scientists say both sets of evidence align with the dates of ...

sea shells and quartz crystals, antlered skulls and a variety of fossils, with some fossils centered on cutting tools. This is all evidence that early hominins exhibited curiosity and interest in ...

The pattern is prevalent in quartz found at or near the Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) boundary, the geological layer deposited at the time of the extinction. Fossil Record A gradual decline in the ...

The mineral chalcedony is a microcrystalline type of quartz which replaces the original calcium carbonate of the coral and forms into agate. Grains of sand and pieces of the original calcium ...

Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement ... published May 15 in the journal Device, uses synthetic quartz to trap solar energy at temperatures over 1,000°C (1,832°F ...