For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

People often appreciate fossils for the insights they reveal about ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. At some ...

"This is really weird, because in all of the fossils that I know of, no one has ever found a mass of stones inside the throat of an animal." The placement and chemical composition of the rocks ...

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A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

The U.S. allows the sale of fossils collected on private property. Growing up, Danny Case became interested in fossils through his father, an amateur paleontologist. Starting at age 10, he says he ...