A priest from Colombia found fossils hidden beneath a rock with markings that indicated it to be plant fossils. The natural ...

Researchers found evidence of gymnosperm forests and ferns in rock layers from this period ... making their... An ancient plant fossil discovered near Rainbow, Utah, has defied classification ...

A variety of fossilized plant spores have been found in rocks from Western Australia that date from the ... of Bristol who was not involved with the study. “It extends the fossil record of [early land ...

Very very rare, usually only very young fossils. 4. Chemical preservation, freezing. Peat is compacted plant material with much of the original ... the middle of a relatively uncemented sedimentary ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

In a significant palaeobotanical discovery, ptilophyllum fossils — leaf imprints preserved in sedimentary rocks — were ...

A fossilized creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago finally has an official name. The small, ...

Minerals in the water replace the bone, leaving a rock replica of the original bone called a fossil. Image caption, It’s not just animal and plant remains that can be fossilised. Things like ...

and the space rock delivered a final, devastating blow? To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction ...