Discover the surprising truths behind fossil fuels that you never knew! These energy sources have a complex history that ...

These can be fossils of whole organisms or fragments of them, such as bits of bone or tiny teeth. Microfossils may be small, but they can provide us with lots of information about the past. For ...

Walter Stein, Triebold's field manager, had recently discovered a single rib poking out of concrete-hard sandstone on private land Triebold had leased for fossil collecting. The prospect of ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...

Fossils can be found in surprising places and they can tell us about the past. We call all of the fossils we have found the fossil record. This record shows us how living things have changed from ...

Ammonite fossils also reveal information about ancient climates, as the sites where they are unearthed must have once been covered by ancient seas.

We know more facts about Neanderthals than any other extinct humans. Many thousands of their artefacts and fossils have been found, including several nearly complete skeletons. We also know about ...

The international team, including palaeontologists from The University of Manchester, found a new set of trace fossils left by some of the first ever organisms capable of active movement. Trace ...

KOBE—Fossils found in Hyogo Prefecture are of a new genus and species of primitive ceratopsian, a plant-eating beaked dinosaur from about 110 million years ago, researchers said. The research ...

“They seem to think the spread of information is ruining the hobby.” Gatekeeping is one of the main tensions running through fossil hunting for hobbyists, Hoppe said. Others include complaints ...