Traces or perforations caused by living organisms after an animal's death can be found on various dinosaur bone remains.

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate ...

La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years ...

Over geologic time, biocalcification – the process by which marine organisms make calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) – has reshaped climates, ocean life, and seawater chemistry. In particular, the evolution ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

The fossils were found in flooded caves in the Dominican Republic. The cache, including seven skulls, five mandibles (jawbones) and dozens of other skeleton parts, makes the fossil site, Cueva Macho, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Fossil lovers get ready, there's a mammoth of a fossil coming soon to the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Well, maybe not a mammoth, but a close relative — a mastodon.

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world barely seemed to budge.

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...