The fossil is now back at the SRSU paleontology lab, where students and researchers are carefully studying it, along with associated vertebrae previously collected from the same quarry.

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

They found two protein variants known to be specific to Denisovans—enough to “confidently identify” the fossil, according to Janet Kelso, a computational biologist at the Max Planck ...

The National Park Service (NPS) called the paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument "groundbreaking," as it gives an idea of what the long-extinct animals lived like in ...

According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences used to obtain dire wolf DNA. The other piece was from a ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it wasn’t an ordinary fossil. This particular find shimmered with the ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years. A new species of fossil ...

SEWELL, N.J. (WPVI) -- Take a step back -- way back -- into history at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum. The $75 million project from Rowan University opens to the public on Saturday.

What little we know about Denisovans is based on a handful of fragmented fossil remains unearthed in Siberia’s Denisova Cave and China’s Tibetan Plateau. A new analysis, however, adds another ...

Pinning down an exact age for the Penghu fossil is challenging because scientists do not have samples of the sediment it was buried in. “One can only say it’s older than 50,000” years ...

Renewable energy accounted for slightly more than half the energy mix on the U.S. power grid last month, marking the first time that clean energy overtook fossil fuels. The milestone not only ...