And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

Discovered in the Yehliu Geopark and Badouzi promontory of the island, the burrows are what are known as trace fossils—preserved imprints left behind by the activities of ancient animals.

The Pokémon Fossil Museum is traveling from Japan to North America for the first time next year The special exhibition compares prehistoric Pokémon to their real world counterparts It will open ...

Hamilton's massive Exodus: The Archimedes Engine — the first of two prequel novels — has done most of the heavy lifting in advance. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Hamilton to ...

The Pokémon Fossil Museum will debut in North America at Chicago's Field Museum on May 22, 2026. Developed in Japan, the exhibit aims to introduce visitors, especially aspiring paleontologists ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.

Delaney Drummond Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O ...

Rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx compare to Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops, while exploring how fossils are uncovered and studied in both the Pokémon universe and the real world.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

Amateur palaeontologists have found the earliest-known footprints of a reptile-like creature called an amniote. The tracks are about 356 million years old, pushing back the origin of reptiles and ...

Protein-rich bodies trigger oxygen depletion, fostering mineral replacement and fossil formation. Smaller creatures or those with less protein are more likely to decay completely. For centuries ...

"Texas has a lot of rich sediments with fossils," said Dr. Aaron Pan, executive director of the Museum of Texas Tech. "It is common to find fossils during building or road constructions in Texas ...