David adds, 'We don't know about many dinosaurs that lived in jungle or mountain environments. Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' The most common way an animal such as a dinosaur ...

However, under certain special conditions, a fossil can form. After an animal dies, the soft parts of its body decompose leaving the hard parts, like the skeleton, behind. This becomes buried by ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

Once prints form, they could easily degrade and be filled or washed away ... Dinosaur tracks are a type of trace fossil. These are evidence of an animal's activity when it was alive, but are not part ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and ... Nevertheless, the processes that affect the carcass form an important part of the context scientists need to best understand the circumstances ...

The San people in South Africa painted animals that related to their cultural beliefs, but were most likely inspired by ...

In the remote outback of South Australia, paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a peculiar creature that may rewrite our ...

MIT study explains why dinosaur collagen survived for millions of years. Collagen, a protein prevalent in bones and ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

It’s named, fittingly, the Poozeum, and it opened earlier this year in Williams, Arizona, a small town about an hour south of ...

Fossil fuels stand in contrast to everything ... common consensus on how to deal with the problem, and ultimately some form of regulation with external enforcement, or self-regulation.