This discovery challenges long-held beliefs about fossilization, suggesting that more ancient treasures may be hidden in ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Fossilised feathers of a 30,000-year-old griffon vulture have been found in a remarkable state of preservation, with details ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

On a tract of public land near Dubois, an extrusion of very old rock — known as the lower Popo Agie Formation — peeks out of a hillside. To the unskilled eye, it just looks like a patch of ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull ...

Two newly discovered prehistoric pollen fossils have become the stars of a ... tropics has an incredibly dynamic history that includes ancient origins, complete extinction and re-colonisation ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

In a new study published today in leading journal Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global partners, combine results from two newly discovered ...

Archaelogists work on excavation at level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante site at Sierra de Atapuerca ...

The same cave complex in Spain's Atapuerca Mountains where the new fossil was found also previously yielded other significant clues to the ancient human past. Researchers working in the region ...

March 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human ...