Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Wind turbine blades will become fossils due to their durable materials. Scientists call these "technofossils." ...

Many textbooks describe how fossils form, but few refer to the fossils that are accumulating now, in sediments at the bottom of a local lake or river, in a peat bog, or along a beach. The remains ...

David adds, 'We don't know about many dinosaurs that lived in jungle or mountain environments. Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' A fish fossil. Nearly all fossils we find are from ...

You might think it strange to long to become a fossil, but the truth is that it's a rare privilege enjoyed by only the very ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that ...

These kinds of fossils can be formed in two major ways. Casts occur when the decaying remains dissolve completely and leave a space that becomes filled-in or replaced by sediment which then ...

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

Metamorphic rock is formed when existing rock is transformed under high heat and pressure, which generally destroys any fossils that were in the rock before it was metamorphosed. For example, marble ...

Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in fossil form. And it's now arrived at a museum in Denmark. The fossil was found at Stevns Klint, a cliff in eastern Denmark known for ...

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...