Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

How Did These Strange, Ancient Organisms Turn into Such Remarkable Fossils? New Research in Geology reveals why the 570-million-year-old Ediacaran Biota were so exceptionally preserved. Boulder, Colo.

A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture, buried beneath volcanic ash in Italy, has unveiled an unexpected scientific breakthrough. Unlike typical fossils found in sedimentary rock, this specimen is ...

“When you go to the quarries, golden ammonites peek out from black shale slabs,” said Rowan Martindale, an associate professor at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences and co-author of ...