Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Microbial communities developing on modern clastic sedimentary surfaces of arid lands are dominated by phototrophic microorganisms that form a variety of characteristic "microbially induced ...

This undated handout photo shows Zhang Pengjie, an expert from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as he cleans and prepares a ...

Trace fossils, the preserved records of biological activity, provide a unique window into the interactions between ancient organisms and their sedimentary settings. By recording behaviours such as ...

For the first time in history, dinosaur fossils have been unearthed in Hong Kong. Researchers from Hong Kong and China unearthed the fossilized remains on the uninhabited northeastern Port Island of ...

A new kind of fossil dinosaur skin discovered in South Korea may help sort out the real dino hides from skin-like features in rocks which are nothing of the sort. Two specimens of fossil dinosaur skin ...

Menu Local Geology History, Resources, and Facilities Geologic History of Southwestern Ohio At the Limper Geology Museum, you will be able to explore a large collection of local rock, mineral, and ...

“Just scrape the ground in central Texas and you’ll expose fossils,” says Linda McCall, 62, an avocational paleontologist who has donated hundreds of thousands of mostly mollusk and other invertebrate ...

Saudi's Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) has announced the documentation and international publication of a scientific ...

It’s easy to forget that all humans roaming Earth’s surface are walking above an endless number of animal fossils. There’s a good chance, for example, that you’ve walked over your fair share of ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

Over two-thirds of American adults believe the U.S. should be taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050, a 2022 Pew Research study found. The United States is operating on a 10-year timeline to ...