Hip-hop mogul and Def Jam founder Russell Simmons is not happy with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, especially its announcement of the 2006 inductees: Black Sabbath, the Sex Pistols ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Folks flocked to the Academy of Natural Sciences this weekend for Paleopalooza -- an exploration and celebration of all things prehistoric. The fossil festival offered close ...

Part of the reason for Rob Becker’s phenomenal success with his “Defending the Caveman” is that he really looks and acts the Average Joe he pretends to be.He’s no better and no worse than ...

Many feathered dinosaurs couldn’t fly — at least, not like birds do today. But the reptiles’ feathers may have been more birdlike than scientists thought. Yet fossilization can change ...

Fossilization is rare. However, you can kind of prime your luck by dying in certain environments. You want to die and get buried in an environment where you get buried really quickly.

A n 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 ...

Fossilization 101. WRITTEN BY: Laurence Tognetti, MSc 4. Studying fossils is critical to understanding how life evolved on Earth. They can help us understand plants and animals that have been extinct ...

So fossilization is a very rare occurrence." Duncan Murdock, a research fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. "But then if you play the numbers game and think about how many ...

A new study from the University of Liverpool has rewritten how we understand the fossilization process It was long believed that the fossilization process destroys ...

In the case of this rugose coral, however, the silica has taken on a different crystalline form during the fossilization and diagenesis process, it forms Chalcedony and appear as this unique pattern ...