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 ...

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

The fossilization process itself can take anywhere from a matter of days to millions of years. Waiting for mineral-rich ...

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

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

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are formed through a unique geological process involving the replacement of organic material with silica, which is the primary component of opal. This process can occur ...

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 ...