A revolutionary study from the University of Liverpool has upended fundamental assumptions about the fossilization process, potentially transforming how scientists approach the study of ancient life.
An arresting photograph showing acougar lying serenely at the bottom of a lake has circulated widely online, with many believing it captures the first steps in the animal’s fossilization. While ...
Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...
In 1991, paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex that would have weighed nearly 20,000 pounds when it roamed around Canada roughly 66 million years ago. The ...
A new study from North Carolina State University identifies vertebrate hemoglobin in bone extracts from two dinosaurs and shows that this molecule is original to those animals. The work also shows how ...
Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...
How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New ...