Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

A professor and a student from RSU unearthed a rare exceptionally preserved fossil gemstone. Professor Dr. Chris Shelton and ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

The newly-identified shark species is believed to have swam in the Carboniferous-period seas 340 million years ago. It belongs to the family Obruchevodidae within an order of extinct cartilaginous ...

Things were no better in the oceans with mosasaurs, ammonites, belemnites, giant inoceramid bivalves, reef-forming rudist clams, and plesiosaurs all disappearing. The most likely explanation is an ...