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) ...

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

The geology, fossils and human stories of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are part of a common geologic heritage.

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 ...

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 ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

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.

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

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 ...

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.