The Museum holds the best collection of fossil bryozoans in the world, with more than 5,000 type and figured specimens. The collection contains an estimated 1,500,000 specimens, making it one of the ...

"But before this study, it hadn't really been investigated using the fossil record." The study casts a spotlight on a ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...

The fossil may have lost water, or color, or the proteins of the soft tissue may have degraded. Unaltered hard parts: teeth and very recent shells, bone or shell encased in petroleum or in ...

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.

Focus: investigating the timing of biomineral switches in Late Cretaceous bryozoans and their relationship to changing seawater chemistry Museum scientists are investigating the timing of a switch ...

When Phil Stokes discusses trilobites, mucrospirifer brachiopods or bryozoans, his eyes light up and his speech accelerates. He is clearly the right man for his job: running one of the nation’s ...

The Museum of the Earth, however, is in imminent danger of closing its doors. After more than 90 years of contributions to paleontological research and over two decades of service to the Ithaca and ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...