Fossilized dinosaur eggshells may hold the key to determining when surrounding rocks and fossils were buried. A study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment reports that uranium-lead ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

The fossilized skull of a pliosaur. Credit: Paleontological Research Center at Villa de Leyva Fossils of an extinct species of marine turtle (Desmarochelys padilla) from the Early Cretaceous in ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Introduction -- Purpose -- Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy -- Types of preservation and methods of study.

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

Fossil tooth lodged in skull helps reconstruct final moments of giant dinosaur that became prey - Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex ...