For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

Million-Yr-Old Mollusk Fossils Emo and Punk Prove the Species Was Evolutionarily Rich and Diverse Punk and Emo shook ...

Less than a decade later, World War II swallowed Germany. The fossils were housed in the Old Academy building of the Bavarian ...

Trace fossils cannot be moved, Feibel said. "This proves beyond any question that not only one, but two different hominins were walking on the same surface, literally within hours of each other ...

Dating back to the Silurian period, the fossils belong to the Aculifera group, which includes chitons and worm-like mollusks.

The activities are structured as classroom investigations, each with a unique theme that utilizes different fossil and cast material from the kit. What fossils tell us about a prehistoric environment ...

In the Kits: #12: Shark tooth (specifically, the enamel of the tooth) Recrystallization - A process by which the minerals making up the original shell or bone of a fossil change into a different ...

There have been many different species of Ginkgo ... We are collecting and imaging lots of modern and fossil Ginkgo leaves, including leaves submitted by citizen scientists across the nation, in order ...

University of Hawaii at Manoa Anthropology Professor Christopher Bae likens his discovery to piecing together a giant puzzle, ...