First up on our list of oldest fossils ever found are the microfossils of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt. The rock sequence is located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 25 miles (40 km) ...

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.

As a result, the fossil record has gaps and is incomplete, and we're missing data that we need to reconstruct evolutionary ...

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

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.

Microfossils have a tendency to muck with our timeline of when life formed on Earth.As their name suggests, these ancient rocks contain the tiny fossilized remains of protists and bacteria, and ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

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 ...