Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Trace fossils, the preserved records of biological activity, provide a unique window into the interactions between ancient organisms and their sedimentary settings. By recording behaviours such as ...

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells may hold the key to determining when surrounding rocks and fossils were buried. A study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment reports that uranium-lead ...

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...

How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...

The building blocks of urban landscapes are often riddled with fossils, with Jurassic reptile bones and Cretaceous sea creatures sometimes emerging from the stone surfaces. London Pavement Geology is ...

Palaeontologists have successfully salvaged a 20-million-year-old whale fossil discovered on the Bellarine Peninsula.