The first person employed by the Natural History Museum as a professional fossil preparator was Caleb ... be damaged by mechanical preparation methods and for those where it’s necessary to remove all ...

The rock is approximately 2.5 billion years old ... oxide inclusions (jasper), and gold bands are amphibole and quartz. Specimen collected by Cin-Ty Lee.

The rock is approximately 2.7 billion years old. Dark bands are iron oxides (magnetite, hematite) and yellow-orange bands are chert with iron oxide inclusions (jasper).

The rock specimen was cleaned and sterilized to prevent contamination by water- and air-borne microbes during drilling and transfer procedures. Only a section confirmed to be free from external ...

This beginner's guide to identifying UK rock types explains the processes of rock formation and features a hand-specimen guide with examples of rock samples.

In January 2020, a team from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences and the Chinese ... “The paleontologists found hundreds of adult specimens of the basal ghost frog, the ancestor of frogs ...