Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

For more than a century, the Ediacara Biota has quietly confused scientists. These fossils, dating back around 570 million ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

But new analysis of a hip bone from a Edmontosaurus revealed a patch of bone collagen, suggesting other fossils might have similar organic remnants “A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building ...

A revolutionary study from the University of Liverpool has upended fundamental assumptions about the fossilization process, potentially transforming how scientists approach the study of ancient life.

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

In rare cases, soft tissue and even dinosaur skin has been found to survive the fossilisation process. Rapid burial of these dead creatures can lead to mineral concretions building up around ...

Dinosaur remains can preserve their original organic molecules—settling a 30-year-old scientific debate about whether such compounds are destroyed during fossilization. This is the revelation of a ...

Part of the collection will be housed locally in the Huasteco Regional Museum AC, located in Ciudad Valles, the Huasteca's ...

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilisation process was thought to destroy them. However, a groundbreaking study, led ...