A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...
A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...
New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...
Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...
Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...
A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...
Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...
Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...
In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...
A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...