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For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

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Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...

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.

How can we guess the size of an extinct animal when all that remains are a few scattered bones? A study conducted by ...

Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...