A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture from Italy has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into how volcanic rock can preserve microscopic feather details. This discovery is the first to ...

A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Traditional fossil studies focus heavily on bones, but bones alone rarely reveal details about diseases at a molecular level. Recently, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University and Imperial College ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species, may have ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Jasmina Wiemann wanted to be a paleontologist before she could even pronounce the word. "I was a weird kid," she says. Growing up in the countryside outside of Bonn, Germany, she collected tokens of ...