The study of fossils, known as paleontology is about examining old remains of plants, animals, and other life forms found in ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

The fossils are from two extinct species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis each of them small creatures less than 12 inches long (but about the same size as the ...

The study revealed the cloaca had swellings that may have been similar to the musk ... Vigilant and authoritative, Hone sounds the alarm on the at times impulsive and rash nature of paleontology.

Both scientific ‘red herrings’ and flaws in human logic led to inaccurate ‘Pompeii effect’ hypothesis.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

A groundbreaking study conducted by Chinese scientists has shed new light on the origins of dairy fermentation practices ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.