The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

The ancestor of Vitoid grapes, which eventually led to the commercial grape varieties cultivated today, likely originated in ...

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have long been destroyed.

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

For many years, scientists believed that organic molecules could not survive in fossils, as the fossilization process was ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years. Recent research on fossil shark teeth has discovered an ...

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered by a group of Chinese paleontologists at Yunnan University. It is an ...

The fossil site of Langebaanweg is located in the West Coast Fossil Park, approximately a 1.5 hour drive from Cape Town and is world-renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved fossil faunal remains ...

Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

A 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit discovery in Denmark offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric Cretaceous food chain.