He argues that “cross-polarized light microscopy images of fossil bones, collected for a century, should be revisited.”The reason for this is the possibility that something may have been missed the ...

Although fossilization affects only a small fraction of the organisms that have ever lived, there are well-documented conditions that foster the process. Thanks to Efremov's founding of the ...

And the worst part? We still think we’re relatable. But maybe there’s comfort in the fossilization process. We become walking time capsules, keeping our formative years alive in ways that no ...

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...