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 ...

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 ...

Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of trace fossil and a window into the lives of dinosaurs. They formed in the same way our footprints do when walking on soft ground like mud.

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 ...