An enigmatic fossil, once considered one of the earliest mollusks, has recently been reclassified by scientists from Durham ...

Scientists at the University of Lausanne unveil the mystery of fossilization, revealing that an animal's internal chemistry ...

Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because they create oxygen-poor conditions that slow decay, helping explain gaps in the fossil record and the dominance of arthropods in ancient ...

The feathers, it turned out, had been preserved by a mineral known as zeolite – part of a volcano’s sediment deposits, but something that, until now, was new to the fossilization game.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard ...

The most common method of fossilization is called permineralization, or petrification. After an organism's soft tissues decay in sediment, the hard parts — particularly the bones — are left ...

This dichotomy between how many T. rexes lived and how few fossils we have of them shows us just how rare fossilization is and how much more we have to learn about these majestic creatures.

In an effort to better understand how the fossilization process affects various types of biological materials, scientists at Britain's University of Bristol developed a lab-based process in which ...

Triceratops are among the most commonly found dinosaur fossils, thanks to their large bones – particularly that uniquely recognizable skull – that lend themselves well to fossilization.