Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur from Germany has given scientists their clearest answer yet to a long-standing puzzle: how ...

This week’s WoW is a beautiful example of how the natural processes of fossilization and diagenesis* can sometimes create breathtakingly unique and intricate pattern formations. This fossil is a ...

But new analysis of a hip bone from a Edmontosaurus revealed a patch of bone collagen, suggesting other fossils might have similar organic remnants “A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

A pilot study shows that nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone not only provides further insight into the changes soft tissues undergo during fossilization, it also has potential as a fast, practical ...

Studying fossils is critical to understanding how life evolved on Earth. They can help us understand plants and animals that have been extinct for millions of years and our own human evolutionary ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...

Many feathered dinosaurs couldn’t fly — at least, not like birds do today. But the reptiles’ feathers may have been more birdlike than scientists thought. Yet fossilization can change feather proteins ...

Beneath quiet farmland in New South Wales, researchers stumbled upon a site that defies scientific expectations. Hidden within layers of deep red, iron-rich rock, long overlooked by fossil hunters, ...

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The world’s first fossilized plant gum has been discovered by a student at the University of Portsmouth. The gum has endured for millions of years—an impressive feat considering it has been exposed to ...