Fossil wood serves as a vital archive for understanding Earth’s past terrestrial ecosystems. The structural features preserved in fossil wood, such as growth rings and cellular arrangements, offer ...

While fossil hunting in Georgia, we uncover dinosaur-aged lignitized wood sparkling with calcite crystals. This rare and ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by ...

Researchers studying fossilized wood on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently discovered that an Early Miocene mangrove forest once covered the area. A volcanic flow likely buried and ...

They said it’d be “peaceful fossil hunting.” They didn’t mention the part where every rock looks like wood and every stick looks like regret. Still, finding petrified wood is like shaking hands with ...

Fossilization is an invaluable process for gaining a window into the past, but it can also create a tripping hazard. The way Angela Piller, collections manager at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks ...

Fossils discovered on Barro Colorado Island suggest central Panama was once home to a vast mangrove forest that was preserved when a volcanic mudflow buried it 23 million years ago. When you purchase ...

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence ...