Today, their ancient seafloor is a fossil site at the border between England and Wales. The site is littered with rounded rocky nodules that “look a bit like potatoes,” Dr. Sutton said.

Such nodules were first spotted at a coal mine ... “This new scenario was (criticized) on the fact that there was no ‘fossil’ or anatomical argument to defend this grouping, but our new ...

Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each misidentified fossil comes with its own unhappy story. Many rocks that look lifelike but aren’t — like mineral nodules that resemble fossil poop and ...

Hope y'all are ready for an adventure! This video took us all over for all kinds of different dinosaur-aged fossils, weird nodules, and even a surprise at the end! Officials across US government ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Some of the famed Mazon Creek ironstone nodules, including a couple ... pursuits in Chicago outdoors and went fossil hunting at Mazonia State Fish and ...

The nodules tend to contain biogenic magnetite—the fossil remains of magnetotactic bacteria, which have magnetic organelles that act like tiny compass needles. In a study published in the ...

TMC's position is that we need more battery-grade minerals to transition away from fossil fuels and reduce ... researching the availability of these nodules and methods to gather them from the ...

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