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Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils – Here’s What They Found

How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marin...

Bones From Underwater Caves May Hold New Clues to Ancient Megafauna

Researchers identified telltale "fingerprints" left by different cave environments that could help reconstruct the history of megafauna fossils.

Underwater Cave Bones Reveal Hidden Clues About Ancient Fossils

Distinct marks on cave bones can reveal how underwater fossil deposits formed and changed over time. Deep inside flooded caves, animal bones can remain remarkably intact for decade...

Scientists Discover a 300-Million-Year-Old Geological Time Capsule Inside Fossilized Wood

Researchers used quartz from fossilized wood to trace how Europe developed. A polished piece of fossilized wood may look like little more than a decorative stone, yet the quartz in...

These underwater bones could solve a mystery about extinct giants

Animal bones preserved in South Australia’s underwater caves reveal distinctive clues shaped by darkness, algae, bacteria, and other environmental conditions. The findings give sci...

Britain’s Jurassic gold rush: the fossil hunters chasing fortunes on Dorset’s beaches

Social media and soaring prices are fuelling a fossil-hunting boom, with rare discoveries worth thousands of poundsBent double at the waist, Martin Curtis combs a stretch of a Dors...

“One-in-a-million” sea creature fossil preserves soft tissue for 450 million years

Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 million years older than the first dinosaurs. Its delica...

Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossil...

“One in a Million” Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth’s earliest reef animals lived and evolved. More than 450 million years ago, long before...

A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster

Fossils collected in Osaka more than 30 years ago have revealed a surprise hiding in plain sight: four previously unrecognized bones from a giant Cretaceous mosasaur. Among them is...

Where on Earth Was This Fossil 200 Million Years Ago?

Researchers have created an open-access interface that turns present-day locations into ancient coordinates with near-desktop-level accuracy. A fossil’s modern coordinates reveal w...

Wyoming fossils reveal ancient forests collapsed after extreme global warming

567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life

A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable bo...

How much should a dinosaur cost?

Fossils are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction. But why are the ancient creatures the hot new thing for the ultrarich?

300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Babies Challenge the Textbook Story of Life’s Move Onto Land

Fossils of young tetrapods suggest that the common ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not evolve from animals with tadpole-like larvae, as scientists once thought. T...

Is a whale fossil the leftovers of a Bronze Age Sunday roast?

A 10-year-old boy was out looking for fossils along the shore in Islandmagee when he spotted the back of the skull.

In MP, a tribal shrine turns out to be 65-million-year-old rare coral fossil

A revered stone, closely protected by the Baiga tribe in Dindori, has been revealed to be a rare coral fossil from the time of dinosaurs, dating back sixty-five million years. Afte...

Scientists found a 2,865-pound predator from before dinosaurs ruled Earth

In an exciting collaboration, over 2,000 public volunteers are meticulously cleaning a colossal 1,300-kilogram fossilized skeleton of a Mastodonsaurus, an ancient amphibian that ro...

Most complete skeleton of 30 million-year-old dog discovered

For decades, a 30 million-year-old fossil sat entombed in rock in an Oregon museum collection. When it was first found, paleontologists thought it might be an early relative of she...

Tiny 1.7-billion-year-old fossils could reveal how complex life began

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the extraordinary leap toward plants, animals, and other com...

Tiny fossils reveal big insights about ant ancestors

Two tiny ant fossils recovered in southern Saskatchewan are helping scientists better understand the evolutionary history of modern ants. Ant fossils dating from 72–56 million year...

Tooth Marks On Fossil Bones From Cretaceous-Era Wyoming: T. rex Was Likely Responsible

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A collection of fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming features tooth marks that provide evidence that some bites were likely created by Tyr...

New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fo...

Giant fossil left in Arctic in 1948 later revealed a record-size predator