Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Mar., 1998), pp. 397-400 (4 pages) Organic-walled fossils, such as graptolites and Chitinozoa, show a high degree of transparency to near infrared radiation ...

I RECORDED Lower Silurian graptolites from Malaya 8 years ago 1. Since their discovery during the geological mapping of the Langkawi Islands large areas of north-west and central Malaya have been ...

Ancient colonies of plankton were surprisingly good at cooperation, according to a new look at a very old fossil. The slab of rock preserves the remains of a graptolite colony, which leaves fossils ...

A new study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in important ways as much as 400,000 years before massive die-offs ensued during the first of Earth’s five ...

THE discovery of graptolites near the village of Harpatnar in the Anantnag District of Kashmir 1 was of considerable interest to geologists studying the history of the Himalayas, because the apparent ...

Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be. What graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and ...

From the seafloor off New Caledonia comes a strange colonial creature that was supposed to have been extinct for 300 million years. When naturalists in the nineteenth century began to turn their ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in important ways as much as 400,000 years before massive die-offs ensued during the first ...

A new study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in important ways as much as 400,000 years before massive die-offs ensued during the first of Earth's five ...