Archaeologists have discovered an extinct species of animal in a Roman amulet in what's been dubbed a "world-first" find.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published: 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308922121 Affiliations: 5 Authors: 5 ...

All that glitters isn’t usually gold, and the same is true for 183 million-year-old fossils found in the Posidonia Shale. Moreover, while the researchers used to think the shiny gold coating on ...

Fossil soft tissue in dinosaur bones has been a controversial topic among researchers for quite some time. Hard tissues, such as bones, eggs, teeth, and enamel scales, are able to survive ...

In Vitro Fossilization for High Spatial Resolution Quantification of Elements in Plant-Tissue Using LA-ICP-TOFMS Journal: Analytical Chemistry Published: 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05849 ...

Future civilizations trying to find traces of how today's population lived are likely to find "technofossils" made up of plastic bags, cheap clothes, and aluminum cans, The Guardian reported. This ...

Taphonomy, or the study of the fossilization process, has been part of paleontology since the 1950s, when the term was coined by Ivan Yefremov, a Soviet scientist who won the Stalin prize—the ...

Recommend a good book or online article on the physical processes of fossilization. In all the science books I've read, "fossil" is the one of the most vaguely defined terms. 3 billion year old ...

An arresting photograph showing acougar lying serenely at the bottom of a lake has circulated widely online, with many believing it captures the first steps in the animal’s fossilization. While ...

The fossilization process is a very rare process,” Dr Maidment, a senior researcher in the division of Vertebrates, Anthropology, and Palaeobiology, told IFLScience.

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the mostly completed saga of adopting the EU’s Fit for 55 climate package, it’s that the EU needs a new way to think about biofuels and their contribution to ...