The find expands our understanding of the early developmental stages of rays and their evolutionary branches.

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

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 ...

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

The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery was in the news recently, after it was announced that the museum plans to invest about $10.5 million into its north Dayton facility, which will update, replace and ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...