However, this prosperity was interrupted time and time again by large storms. Records of these conditions have been left behind in the layers of limestone and mudstone in local bedrock. The fossils ...

The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the dissolved calcium carbonate in the seawater to form internal skeletons ...

The team led by the University of Cambridge published their study in the journal Nature and thought that the new fossil could attest to why birds survived the mass extinction event at the end of ...

In 2020, fossils of marine creatures were also discovered in a limestone block used in a wall at the MTR Sunny Bay Station, igniting lively debate on the topic. One post said a fossil was found ...

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 ...

Almost all fossils are preserved in sedimentary rock. Organisms that live in topographically low places (such as lakes or ocean basins) have the best chance of being preserved. This is because they ...

Tom: So, we can test if the rocks are actually limestone. Definitely hydrochloric. We've got the geological timescale which lets us know in the rocks there's many fossils and we get to know how ...