The Family That Nests Together, Rests Together

Fossils tell stories. I’ve written about this beautiful fact over and over again, but the multiple perspectives on prehistoric life afforded by even the most mundane petrified scrap never cease to impress me. Fossils are not merely individual facts of nature that educate us simply by their identification and accumulation. They are more than that - primeval touchstones that can send us down any number of pathways as we trace evolutionary history. Such ancient inspirations can be as simple as a fragment of turtle shell or a shed trilobite exoskeleton, and, as recently shown by paleontologist Gareth Dyke and colleagues, as grand as the remnants as a drowned bird colony.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/tales-in-eggshell/

VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY VIRGIN MEDIA VIEWSONIC VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS