A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

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The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

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In the Peruvian desert, a 9-million-year-old fossil has been discovered, offering a rare glimpse into one of the largest marine predators of its time. This find sheds light on the evolution of ancient ...

These images may reveal intact patches of bone collagen, potentially offering a ready-made trove of fossil candidates for further protein analysis. This could unlock new insights into dinosaurs– for ...

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists think it was created by an ancient meteor strike.

A team of researchers may have determined where fossils older than any we’ve ... that remnants of an earlier evolutionary stage of dinosaur may be found in parts of the Sahara and the Amazon ...

A team of researchers may have determined where fossils older than any we’ve ever found may be buried A new paper in Current Biology posits that remnants of an earlier evolutionary stage of dinosaur ...

Peter Bennicke, a local fossil hunter, discovered the blob at the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed geological site on the Danish island of Zealand made up of about 9 miles of fossil-rich coastal ...