Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...

When looking at calcite under a microscope, a scientist would immediately recognize the crystalline form of calcium carbonate by its rhombohedral appearance. That is, calcite is shaped like a ...

Florida is Not Known for Crystals... THIS is Why it Should Be! Finding Calcite in Fossil Clams! In today's video, PaleoCris and I went to meet up with our buddy Derek to do some rockhounding here in ...

Crystal-filled dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs have been discovered in China by paleontologists. The two fossilized eggs are from a new species of dinosaur, which the scientists figured out ...

From one angle, the egg appears to be nothing more than a smooth, rounded stone. (Image: He et al., J. Palaeogeogr., 2022) A rare fossil discovery in eastern China has surprised palaeontologists, ...

Two almost perfectly round dinosaur eggs from eastern China have turned out to be hollow shells packed with glittering crystals instead of bones. The fossils, uncovered in the Qianshan Basin of Anhui ...

Quasiparticles in motion: illustration of ghost polaritons in a calcite crystal being “launched” to record distances by a gold microdisk. (Courtesy: HUST) The existence of ghost hyperbolic surface ...

Sea urchins and mollusks form skeletal components from single crystals of calcite, the mineral that makes up limestone. This image (movie) shows the 3-D nanoscale structure of the inside of a ...