Whether in the name of science, art, or sheer morbidity, Austin Houldsworth’s determination to fossilize a pheasant and a pineapple got results. Although if Houldsworth’s goal is eventually to ...

I will never forget seeing Jurassic Park for the first time in the summer of 1993. Not only did the dinosaurs look real, but they sounded real, each dinosaur having its own array of chirps, bellows, ...

Scientists have long maintained that brains do not fossilize. However, a new research has provided the strongest evidence yet that it is possible to fossilize the brain. In fact, researchers just ...

Though you may be the most familiar with fossils that look like the Triceratops above, there are many different types of fossils that result from a variety of different forms of preservation. Fossils ...

In 2011, excavators at a mine in Alberta, Canada, unearthed a surprise: a 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur (a type of armored dinosaur) so impeccably preserved that it still had skin and ...