Some 200 million years ago, a 12-ton dinosaur that was double the size of an African elephant stomped around South Africa. In ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant underneath sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for ...

A 444 million-year-old specimen of a primitive marine anthropod was fossilized “inside-out,” with its muscles and guts ...

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

an area not typically associated with significant dinosaur finds. The region was once part of a prehistoric coastline, which ...

However, officials say a new layer of sediment will help protect the tracks from natural weathering and erosion. "While these newer dinosaur tracks were visible for a brief amount of time ...

Guy Plint, a professor emeritus of earth sciences at Western University, joined London Morning to talk about identifying ...

Shark teeth are particularly common fossils Once remains are buried under sediment, their decomposition slows down due to a lack of oxygen, giving enough time for fossilisation to occur. But dinosaurs ...

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

visitors can see layers of sediment, their different colors indicating eras that have already yielded 100,000 fossils of more than 100 species, spanning back to the final days of the dinosaurs.

“Tracks that are buried under layers of sediment help protect them from natural weathering and erosion,” Garcia explained. Other tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park belong to a ...