Scientists have made new discoveries about the origins of dinosaurs, suggesting they first emerged in dry, arid regions of ...

Every year the world-renowned Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is like a time portal, a trip around the world, and a treasure hunt all rolled into one. Every winter, more than 65,000 guests from ...

A team of researchers may have determined where fossils older than any we’ve ever found may be buried A new paper in Current Biology posits that remnants of an earlier evolutionary stage of ...

Turns out, there's more to the shark than sharp teeth and gills. Read on to learn about these misread sea dwellers.

Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ago, the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

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Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity ...

A local amateur fossil hunter made the find on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke found some unusual fragments, which turned out to ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?