But these sorts of rocks have no fossils in them. The rocks that have fossils in them are formed very slowly underwater. Water carries sediment - sand and mud – that settles on the bottom of the lake ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Not every scientific discovery begins with a dramatic excavation. Sometimes the most important part comes later, after the ...

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the ...