Once you’re done sifting through the dirt and rocks in your yard for fossils, you can read up on all things dinosaurs, ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Researchers have found fossil evidence of varied creatures wooing and mating, as they continue to search for the telltale ...

There are several steps that go into a researcher finding a fossil. First, you have to figure out what kind of fossil you want to find. You need to know the age of the rock you’re looking for, who ...

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

A fragment of ancient reptile skin discovered in an Oklahoma cave is changing what scientists know about early life on land. Dated to nearly 300 million years ago, this fossilized skin is now ...

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all ...

Dinosaur fossils reveal preserved blood molecules, reshaping how scientists understand fossil chemistry and deep-time ...

(CNN) — It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those ...