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 ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

The La Brea Tar Pits have stirred the imaginations of scientists and the public for over a century. But the amount of time it took for ancient animals to become buried in asphalt after enduring ...

The site or bone bed at La Cantalera-1 is located in Teruel (Spain) and regarded as hugely important by the scientific community as it is one of the sites on the Iberian Peninsula with the greatest ...

To learn more about decay and fossilization, researchers conduct unorthodox experiments—like dissecting decomposing animals in the lab. Christopher Intagliata reports. The fossil record is far from ...

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 ...

It takes a long time to make a fossil. The fossilized dinosaur bones you see in museums spent tens of millions of years buried deep underground, transformed by heat, pressure, and chemical reactions.

Whether they come from dino “dragons,” ancient pandas, or well-endowed crustaceans, fossil finds can offer exciting insights into the creatures that roamed the earth long before modern humans came ...

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 ...

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 ...