"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

Some 200 fossils roughly 380 million years old are now buried in a landfill because the New Jersey college tasked with mailing them did not pay the bill to have them delivered, according to a lawsuit.

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google maps A college professor in New Jersey claims that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence from his university, per a civil complaint. Martin Becker ...

Credit: Dawid A. Iurino, edited Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic feather details through the formation of ...

A William Paterson University professor says school officials lost his rare fossil collection and that the artifacts were dumped in a landfill. Now he’s suing. Martin Becker, an environmental science ...

A William Paterson University professor has filed a lawsuit claiming his irreplaceable collection of 380 million-year-old fossils was lost by college officials and ended up in a landfill.

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A professor said the North Jersey university where he works lost his collection of 380 million-year-old fossils. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William ...