A new study published in Palaeontology has confirmed that X-ray computed tomography (XCT scanning) can be used to monitor ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form.

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Animals rich in protein reduce oxygen faster during decay, creating mineral-forming environments which helps preserve their ...

Trace fossils are imprints left in sediment by an organism - either during its life (e.g. footprints, insect nests, and tooth pits on the bones of prey) or during its death - that become rock.

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...

Meanwhile, ammonites thrived in the sea. Their fossils can often be located in various geological formations, ranging from ...

The fossil-rich coal seam is 230 feet below ground ... The shale roof—made of the sediment that destroyed the forest so long ago—is cracking and flaking off now that the coal below it has ...

Paleontologists have been collecting fossils in southern New Jersey for ... Sponsor Message That's because running across the quarry is a sediment layer that tells the extinction story — the ...

Fossil found in South Africa named Keurbos susanae after 25 yearsExceptionally preserved soft tissue from post-extinction ...

Shark teeth are particularly common fossils Once remains are buried under sediment, their decomposition slows down due to a lack of oxygen, giving enough time for fossilisation to occur. But dinosaurs ...

a fossil can form. After an animal dies, the soft parts of its body decompose leaving the hard parts, like the skeleton, behind. This becomes buried by small particles of rock called sediment.