Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Uncovering the fossil record requires scientists with many different areas of ... hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves. There are three main types of rock: igneous rock, ...

Thank you for those who participated in Fossil Atmospheres ... The purpose of the project was to create a record of how the atmosphere has changed through time by calculating the percentages of two ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a ...

which is a large fossil egg type believed to have been laid by large oviraptorosaurs, a group of bird-like dinosaurs. However, recent efforts have dramatically expanded this record. Led by the ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily ... ashes and other types of loose sediment. This process is called diagenesis ...

Discovered in the McGraths Flat fossil site in New South Wales, Australia, the new fossil is a freshwater smelt belonging to ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers - the first ever record of such a ...