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

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.

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

Although fossilization affects only a small fraction of the organisms that have ever lived, there are well-documented conditions that foster the process. Thanks to Efremov's founding of the ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric fossilization of the real stuff. By Richard Fisher Amber is coveted the world over ...

But the reptiles’ feathers may have been more birdlike than scientists thought. Yet fossilization can change feather proteins, making one keratin protein resemble another, researchers report in ...

A revolutionary study from the University of Liverpool has upended fundamental assumptions about the fossilization process, potentially transforming how scientists approach the study of ancient life.

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.

Almost the entire animal—the skin, the armor that coats its skin, the spikes along its side, most of its body and feet, even its face—survived fossilization. It is, according to Dr. Donald ...

A completely new range of fossils, and a new style of fossilization, is already emerging on Earth, they say. Manufactured objects — plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete buildings ...

This is what you’ll want to know about the processes of rock formation and fossilization. Specialists say that there are three main types of rock, including igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock, ...