Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University ...

Ancient poop fossils preserved molecules thanks to iron carbonate, revealing hidden details of prehistoric ecosystems.

Two baby pterosaur fossils contain rare evidence of how they died 150 million years ago — and the specimens solve a larger ...