In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record ...

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330 million-year-old creature found fossilized in limestone may be the oldest known relative of ... According to The New York Times, the fossil was originally donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in ...

The specimen in question is an exquisite fossil of a gossamer-winged butterfly from the Isle of Wight. It is the only representative of its species ever found. Discovered in the Insect Limestone at ...

Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment build up on top of one another, they create a physical timeline. The oldest layers, ...