Fossilized dinosaur eggshells may hold the key to determining when surrounding rocks and fossils were buried. A study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment reports that uranium-lead ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, ...

The lower-middle Hetang Formation (Cambrian Stage 2–3) deposited in slope-basinal facies in South China is well known for its preservation of the earliest articulated sponge fossils, providing an ...

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

Fossil tooth lodged in skull helps reconstruct final moments of giant dinosaur that became prey - Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex ...

BEIJING, Feb 26 (XINHUA/APP): Chinese scientists have discovered new cyprinid fish fossils from the early and middle Miocene of the Lunpola Basin in northwest China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These ...