These Bizarre Fossils Have Baffled Scientists for Years. Now, Experts Have Cracked the Case.

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

New dinosaur fossils found under a parking lot reveal a 100-year-old secret in Colorado

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at ...

First dinosaur fossil found at Dinosaur National Monument in over 100 years

Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.
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Scientists finally explain Earth’s strangest fossils

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

For a place named Dinosaur, it’s been a while since the small Colorado town revealed any actual fossils. But after a 101 year ...
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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...
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Fossils show that ‘Nutcracker Man’ ventured further and wider than previously thought

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Life in fossil bones: what we can learn from tiny traces of ancient blood chemicals

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...