The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

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They’re little time capsules, often holding stories so bizarre they make modern nature look boring. Some fossils reveal just how weirdly life used to work, while others pop up in the most unexpected ...

How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...

Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...

The fossils collected in the northern Panama Canal area belonged to small-sized cetacean specimens from the Late Miocene and were new for the region. Credit: Jaime Bran The fossils collected in the ...

An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It ...

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen Getty Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...