Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

Understanding the molecular history of cancer could help scientists discover new treatments for the modern age.

Most of those marks are on fossils of hoofed animals, including a few deer; one is a small carnivore leg bone. When we could identify the type of bone, the cut marks are always in anatomical ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

"They're the most well-represented dinosaurs in the fossil record, without a doubt. The research I'm doing is the identification of this hadrosaur." Without the skull, the pubis, a bone from the ...

However, advancements in technology and methodology now allowed for a more precise identification of such fossils. This was not the first time that human bones and bear bones were confused.

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...