A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a geological process known as opalization, wherein organic material from ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes.

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Modern farming depends on massive amounts of ammonia fertilizer, almost all of it made from fossil gas in enormous chemical plants. These facilities use high heat and pressure to split that gas, ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...