Trilobites, ancient marine arthropods, are famous for their hard exoskeletons, which fossilize readily. Yet, in some exceptionally preserved specimens, the exoskeleton holds impressions of the ...

Time alone doesn’t make something fossilize: It also takes extreme pressure to squeeze out water. This is one of the reasons that it’s much more common to find fossilized bones and teeth than ...

Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails. There are all ...

Fossils are the remains or traces of organisms that lived 10,000 years ago or longer. Organisms that die rarely leave behind bones that fossilize. Instead, when an animal dies in nature, its body is ...

Ancient brains turn paleontology on its head Strongest evidence yet that it's possible for brains to fossilize and, in fact, a set of 520-million-year-old arthropod brains have done just that Date ...

University of Lausanne. (2025, May 1). Why did some ancient animals fossilize while others vanished?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 ...

The chances of an organism leaving behind even a bone to fossilize are extremely low, so for paleontologists, this specimen was the find of a lifetime. Typically, when an animal dies in nature, its ...

But softer tissues are far more likely to decay than fossilize, including chitinous exoskeletons, skin, and feathers. Soft-tissue organisms tend to be under-represented among fossils, except for ...

Sponsor Message Bones fossilize really well, but unfortunately behavior really doesn't. Greg Erickson, professor anatomy and vertebrate paleobiology, Florida State University But results from a ...

Praying mantises are known for their specialized "arms" — a pair of oversized appendages near the top of the thorax that are lined with sharp spines and capable of immobilizing prey. And a ...

According to Senter, crocodylians vocalize by using their larynx, a soft-tissue structure in the throat that does not fossilize. Since all the different types of living crocodylians (alligators ...