A single deposit has produced a wealth of fossils revealing the late Triassic ecosystem, where giant amphibians cohabited ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis took two big rocks containing a dinosaur skull to the hospital for a CT scan. The ...

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying ...

And they also hold fossils that tell us about some of the very earliest life forms that we'll ever manage to see in the fossil record. So how did these mountains manage to hang on to these precious ...

As for volcanic evidence, the rocks containing these fossils do have some volcanic detritus, but there isn’t evidence of intense pyroclastic flows, the team says.

According to Prof. McNamara: “Here in Ireland, we’re lucky to have many rocks that contain fossils. Our rich fossil record stretches back over 500 million years, to the dawn of animal life.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Item 1 of 5 A child looks at dinosaur figurines displayed at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre during an exhibition featuring a rock containing dinosaur bone fossils discovered for the first ...