Tag: fossils
Make Your Own Jurassic Forest
Love the Jurassic Park movies? Create your own Jurassic forest! In the first Jurassic Park, an ailing triceratops ate poisonous berries from a plant...
Exploring the Crystal Cave in Ohio
Exploring the crystal cave in Ohio on Put-In-Bay island and the glacial grooves on Kelleys Island are must-do activities when visiting the area.
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What Are Crinoid Fossils?
What are crinoids? These marine creatures lived and thrived in ancient saltwater oceans millions of years ago. Early primitive examples lived in the shallow...
What Are Cystoid Fossils?
Cystoids and crinoids are cousins that look alike but have distinct differences. Cystoids occupied an ecological niche along with the crinoids. Unfortunately, cystoids did...
How Are Petroglyphs Made?
How are petroglyphs made? The two basic forms of rock art are pictographs, which are pigments applied to rock surfaces, and petroglyphs, or engravings.
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Paleontology in the Parks
What do rare insect and fish fossils, an abundance of petrified wood, a rock wall studded with 1,500 dinosaur bones, working fossil quarries, and...
What is Teredo Petrified Wood?
Teredo petrified wood is a peculiar petrified wood that resembles Swiss cheese with its many holes and is the state fossil of North Dakota....
What is Baltic Amber?
Baltic amber in northern Europe is known as “sunstone” and “solar stone” for its golden, sun-like glow. It is also known as “Baltic gold”...
Examining Fossil Sand Dollars
Fossil sand dollars are a fabulous find for beachcombers and fossil hunters alike! They belong to the phylum Echinodermata, which includes marine animals like...
Dinosaurs Continue to Inspire
By Jim Brace-Thompson
Although non-avian dinosaurs and their immediate ancestors roamed Earth between 252 and 66 million years ago (and avian dinos continue to fly...
