Using relative and radiometric dating methods, geologists are able to answer the question: how old is this fossil? ... (Figure 1) there are many horizontal layers, which are called strata.

South Africa boasts some of the best fossil records on Earth. Fossils are found in strata and rocks in many parts of the country. Some are billions of years old.

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades.

This finding refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination.The fossil at the center of the discovery is a well-preserved sacrum of an Edmontosaurus, a ...

Based on the rock strata in which it was found, the researchers suspect the fossil is about 113 million years old, 13 million years older than the previous oldest known ant fossil.

Paleontologists reckon that most fossil species survived no more a than a few hundred thousand to a few million years before extinction (often to be replaced in overlying strata by similar species ...

Human-made objects will leave "technofossils" for future paleontologists to study, according to a new book. Plastics, including bottles and synthetic clothing, will likely become the most common ...

Georges Cuvier: The notion of creatures being simply wiped from the face of the Earth was anathema to many early naturalists. When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the ...

Scientists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future paleontologists ...

These fossils originated from the Valanginian period (139.8 million years to 132.9 million years ago) during the Early Cretaceous. The Ashdown Brickworks is part of the Wadhurst Clay Formation, a ...

This striking revelation is set to reshape our understanding of early animal evolution. The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province ...