Most fossils are basically mineralized body parts: shells, bones, and teeth. But softer tissues are far more likely to decay than fossilize, including chitinous exoskeletons, skin, and feathers.

What types of animal remains do you think you could find at La Brea Tar Pits? Based on your chicken and teratorn observations, you probably guessed that only the “hard parts” (i.e., the bones) of a ...

The grand metropolises of 21st Century civilisation will leave a geological legacy that will last for millennia, but as the author David Farrier writes, some things will endure far longer than others.

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer ...

Most of what we know about ancient extinct animals comes from their bones, since soft tissues don’t usually fossilize well. But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate ...

RACINE — While most people tend to retreat into warm houses when winter weather comes around, Deborah Lema makes a point of being outside as much as she can when ...

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 ...

Scientists Ruin Delicious Seabass to Probe Why Some Organs Don’t Fossilize Watching fish rot for more than two months disproves a long-standing fossilization theory ...

How to Fossilize… Yourself By Jamie Condliffe Published January 7, 2014 | Comments ( 0 ) 𝕏 ...