Now Fr. Skehan, professor emeritus in the geology and geophysics department at Boston College, has had a half-billion-year-old genus of trilobite named in his honor, in a fossil bouquet to his ...

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which ...

The new species of obruchevodid petalodont, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, or “McGinnis nail tooth,” was identified through a number of fossil teeth ... as the Middle Mississippian period.