Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of ...

A new study is challenging a long-standing view of the final days of the dinosaurs. For decades, many palaeontologists ...

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 ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists excavating ...

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

The burning of fossil fuels has disrupted the nitrogen cycle by altering that amount of nitrogen in the biosphere, according to scientists from Brown University and the University of Washington. It ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark ...

Researchers developed a unified model of the formation mechanism of spherical carbonate concretions, which often contain exceptionally well-preserved fossils. The carbon in the carbonate originates ...

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 168, No. 3 (March/April 2007), pp. 341-350 (10 pages) Well‐preserved fossil seeds of an ANITA‐grade angiosperm are described from the Gokurakuzawa ...

Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals secrets of fossil formation without disturbing the decay of buried carcasses A new study published in Palaeontology has confirmed that X-ray computed ...