Colombian researcher María Camila Vallejo-Pareja with a frog from Wyoming seen in the field looking for microvertebrate fossils. Colombian researcher María Camila Vallejo-Pareja is using fossil frogs ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...

Dive into deep time to discover how fossils form, the ocean's surprising origins, and more. What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant ...

New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are ‘hard’ tissues, such as bone, ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...

What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, and has the answers.

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...

Scientists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future paleontologists ...

Sometimes science can be a messy endeavor—not to mention "disgusting and smelly." That's how British researchers described their experiments monitoring dead sea bass carcasses as they rotted over the ...