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Fossils
Echoes of Life Through Time: Human's
Evolving Views of Fossils and the Patterns They Reveal explores
the human realization that rocks have recorded a history of life on
Earth. Read
this article to learn more about the groundbreaking work that led
to an understanding of how fossils form and to the revelation that
Earth's fossil record threw light on extinction and evolution. Read
Fossils to learn about our current understanding
of taphonomy and types of fossil preservation. Use The Virtual Petrified
Wood Museum
to cruise
the fossil record and discover
patterns
of evolving life through time.
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The
background image used for links to our articles above is
a close-up of royal purple and blue botryoidal agate covering
the exterior
of a Blue Forest petrified limb from the Green River Formation
of Wyoming.
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