Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to ...

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...

The Djadochta Formation in Mongolia is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur fossil sites. Its remarkably preserved remains suggest rapid burial events, yet the exact conditions are still debated.

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...

Introduction : Milestones in the study of biominerals : a summary of the discontinuous and somewhat erratic path of research on their formation and properties -- The concept of microstructural ...

During a parking lot construction at Dinosaur National Monument, workers came across the fossils of an enormous dinosaur ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

An ancient cradle of evolution may have been discovered in the striped cliffs of the Grand Canyon. Paleontologists have found an exceptionally well-preserved trove of fossils in the greenish shales of ...