Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Sanfordiacaulis densifolia had a long, spindly, narrow trunk and a crown of leaves ... Its appearance resembles a fern or palm tree, although the oldest tree fern fossil is younger, and palm ...

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships ...

The trunk that now resides on the Museum's east lawn was uncovered in 1873, found approximately 56 metres below the surface. The fossil tree, Pitys withamii, lived during the Carboniferous Period, ...

Unlike typical tree fossils, these have preserved the whole tree: trunk, crown, and leaves-without stumps or root systems of a tree. Such singular treasures provide an awesome opportunity in the ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...

You can see growth rings in some tree fossils, such as this petrified tree trunk Sometimes ground water dissolves the buried bone or shell, leaving behind a bone- or shell-shaped hole or imprint in ...

There are some exceptions, such as tree trunks surrounded by lava and preserved as casts, but these are rare. Metamorphic rock is formed when existing rock is transformed under high heat and pressure, ...

the 2022 discovery of a dinosaur bone in Koh Kong’s Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary and the excavation of marine life fossils in Banteay Meanchey’s Phnom Bak Natural Heritage Site, during a 2021-23 dig. Last ...

Some fossil discoveries even suggest that certain ... "The presence of intact tree trunks and fern stems further confirms that these microfossils represent local vegetation, not transported ...