Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...

But they’re actually not trash at all — they’re moon snail egg casings, and they play an important role in ocean ecosystems. Moon snails are large, sea-dwelling mollusks found all over the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.