A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

David adds, 'We don't know about many dinosaurs that lived in jungle or mountain environments. Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' A fish fossil. Nearly all fossils we find are from ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. You might think it strange to ...

Professor Sarah Gabbott from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment said, "It's been a real adventure to use our understanding of how fossils form in the past and now apply it to the ...

BEIJING -- Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed dinosaurs from over 70 million years ago, expanding the region's fossil ...

Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in fossil form. And it's now arrived at a museum in Denmark. The fossil was found at Stevns Klint, a cliff in eastern Denmark known for ...