Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that’s closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids-made homes in the unique environments surrounding methane seeps in the seaway that once covered America’s Great Plains. The findings, published online this week in the journalGeology, provide new […]
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Ammonites Found Mini Oases at Ancient Methane Seeps
August 4th, 2012 
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No Comments »Humble bug plugs gap in fossil record
August 4th, 2012 riffin Paris – One day 370 million years ago, a tiny larva came to a sticky end when it plunged into a shrimp-infested swamp and drowned.Unearthed in modern-day Belgium, the humble bug now looks set to plug a giant gap in the fossil record. Named Strudiella devonica, the eight-millimetre invertebrate – while in far from mint condition […]
