Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant. She’d seen them ...

Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant. She'd seen them ...

Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...

which slowly dissolves bone, including fossilized bone—but not soft tissues. One Friday night in January 2004, Wittmeyer was in the lab as usual. She took out a fossil chip that had been in the ...

The science of trace fossils isn’t as “sexy” as studying bones, teeth and other physical remains, Bennett said. Fossilized tracks don’t get as much attention. That’s part of the reason ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Fossilized bones of a saber-toothed cat and dinosaurs that may be 100 million years old are among "priceless" artifacts that the United States handed over to China in a ceremony ...

According to Phys.org, Professor Janis and her team analyzed more than 300 small fossilized bone fragments, specifically the ends of limb bones from marsupials and placental mammals found in ...