When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

In December 2024, researchers published a paper in Paelontologia Electronica detailing an incredible fossil discovery — the 45-million-year-old skull of a Diatryma, a genus of giant flightless bird.

Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over millions of years. When most organisms die, their tissues are exposed to the ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

The fossil’s internal organs are almost perfectly preserved, providing researchers with rare insight into the early ancestors of today’s arthropods Arthropods include modern-day animals like crabs, ...