Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly ...
A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...
New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.
For the first time, scientists have uncovered a clear and complete picture of what a large dinosaur looked like in real ...
Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...
A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.
The study of how life evolved would be impossible if not for the history that is told in the fossilized remains going back billions of years. Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil ...
Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...
A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture from Italy has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into how volcanic rock can preserve microscopic feather details. This discovery is the first to ...