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A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities challenges previous classifications paleontologists use ...

New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are ‘hard’ tissues, such as bone, ...

A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine.

Some well-preserved sea life fossils formed 183 million years ago didn't form in a no-oxygen environment as researchers previously thought, according to new analysis of the fossils by a team including ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...