"This is really weird, because in all of the fossils that I know of, no one has ever found a mass of stones inside the throat of an animal." The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

Wild Kyle teams up with Rob from Michigan Rocks to explore a Michigan beach filled with colorful stones and prehistoric ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient, squid-like belemnite from Wyoming after discovering the thickest ...

The microbialite record can tell us a great deal about life on Earth. It gives us clues about where some of the earliest life ...

Scientists uncovered a rare baby dinosaur in South Korea and named it Doolysaurus after a famous cartoon character. Using cutting-edge CT scans, they discovered hidden bones—including a skull—inside ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

A leaf that dropped from a tree around 50 million years ago could be waiting inside a rock you split open yourself. That’s ...

"This is really weird, because in all of the fossils that I know of, no one has ever found a mass of stones inside the throat of an animal." The placement and chemical composition of the rocks ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...