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

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

A rare fossil from Thailand identifies a 25-foot spinosaurid that lived along river systems 125 million years ago.

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million ...

Continued strategic dominance of and heavy reliance on fossil fuels remain the primary obstacles to the expansion of ...

Litigation has become an increasingly important policy tool in the U.S., with lawsuits targeting the energy sector in ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...