Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

But new analysis of a hip bone from a Edmontosaurus revealed a patch of bone collagen, suggesting other fossils might have similar organic remnants “A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building ...

Coauthor Sarah Gabbott of the University of Leicester created a synthetic technofossil from a notebook, paper and plaster of paris. However, it's impossible to know exactly how discarded items will ...

In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...

Introduction : Milestones in the study of biominerals : a summary of the discontinuous and somewhat erratic path of research on their formation and properties -- The concept of microstructural ...

(CNN) — Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a mass extinction it helped unleash. What traces will humanity leave embedded ...

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