The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

How do parts of ancient creatures, like this fossil skull of an extinct herbivore, Miniochoerus from 33 million years ago, manage to survive and end up in a museum exhibition? Lucia RM Martino and ...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Fossils Are Where You Find Them -- 1. Fantastic Fossils -- 2. How Are Fossils Formed? -- 3. What Kinds of Rocks Yield Fossils? -- 4.

Some 67 million years ago, in what is now known as Slope County, North Dakota, an adolescent duck-billed dinosaur was killed and chewed up by various predators and scavengers. The Edmontosaurus left ...

Mark Williams received funding from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, for work in San Francisco Bay. He is also a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. Anthony D. Barnosky is a ...