Gallagher et al. [1] report preserved melanosomes in the integument of juvenile diplodocids from the Late Jurassic of Mother's Day Quarry (Montana, USA). T

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.”

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

A new analysis of a fossil found in 1889 has unveiled the presence of zeolites—and an entirely new mineralization method.

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Cutting-edge analytical instrumentation is increasingly being developed and applied to the analysis of fossils. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging spectroscopy is a powerful tool to resolve the elementa...

Died 30,000 years ago, discovered 136 years ago and disrupting the field of palaeontology just this week – the surprising afterlife of a vulture.

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers - the first ever record of such a pre...

A UCC-based scientist has led an international team to have made a breakthrough discovery in the preservation of fossils.

Volcanic rocks might contain much more exciting fossils than previously believed.

Strata from the late Ediacaran Period (∼579-539 Ma) host fossils of Earth's earliest assemblages of diverse macroscopic organisms: the Ediacaran macrobiota. Many Ediacaran macrobiota taxa are preserve...

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