A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been confirmed through joint research by Okayama ...

The team of researchers discovered a large number of squid fossils from rocks of the late Cretaceous period using a technique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...