The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...

David adds, 'We don't know about many dinosaurs that lived in jungle or mountain environments. Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' A fish fossil. Nearly all fossils we find are from ...

Many textbooks describe how fossils form, but few refer to the fossils that are accumulating now, in sediments at the bottom of a local lake or river, in a peat bog, or along a beach. The remains ...

The fossil comes from the Hell Creek Formation region that "preserves Earth's last dinosaur ecosystem" right before the mass extinction, Lyson said. Based on the soft sandstone in which it was ...