Although fossilization affects only a small fraction of the organisms that have ever lived, there are well-documented conditions that foster the process. Thanks to Efremov's founding of the ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Although dinosaurs lived many millions of years ago, we know that they existed because some of them turned into fossils when they died. Watch our animation to discover how this happened, and explore ...

Diverse fossils from that time remained pretty much undisturbed ... One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that ...