Protein-rich bodies trigger oxygen depletion, fostering mineral replacement and fossil formation. Smaller creatures or those with less protein are more likely to decay completely. For centuries ...

Finding more tegu fossils may help demystify the prehistoric lizard's brief stint in North America. "I'm ready to go up to the Panhandle and try to find more fossil sites along the ancient coastal ...

Fossils of Palaeospondylus, which resemble a strand of black thread with a knot at one end, were first discovered in Scotland in the 19th century. They date back to the Middle Devonian epoch ...

beautiful bill” to advance President Trump’s agenda and fund the government slashes a number of green programs and regulations — and seeks to bolster fossil fuels. The legislation targets a ...

Scientists believe that reading the growth bands on oyster fossils dating back millions of years can reveal the environmental information of the Earth's past and offer new understanding of the ...

With the U.S. government now planning to ramp up fossil fuel use, the risks of these events are likely to become even more pronounced. For many years, federally funded scientists have been ...

According to the team, given these lifetimes of stellar objects, we may be able to detect the fossil remnants of a previous universe within our own. So why the big difference in estimates?

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying ...

Ammonite fossils were unearthed during ground work for East West Rail between Cambridge and Oxford Fossils including sharks' teeth from the dinosaur age have been uncovered during ground ...

Cretaceous fossil shrimp from Jbel Oum Tkout, Morocco, registered at the Museum d’histoire naturelle de Marrakech. Credit: Sinéad Lynch – UNIL Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about a mysterious fossil from the Cambrian period. Researchers from Durham University revealed that the fossil, Shishania aculeata, was originally ...