Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails. There are all ...

This image shows a Fuxianhuia protensa specimen from the Chenjiang fossil beds in southwest China. The ancient arthropod was just under 5 inches in length. Xiaoya Ma, London Museum of Natural ...

Fossils aren’t the preserve of dead dinosaurs and ancient insects. Believe it or not, you could ensure that your body lives on, perfectly preserved in stone, for ever more. You just need to die ...

In this resource, you will learn about some of the environmental conditions that contribute to fossilization, and why some parts of organisms are more likely to fossilize than others parts. For anyone ...

Eat, Pray, Fossilize? Praying Mantis Fossil Is 110 Million Years Old. News. By Mindy Weisberger published 3 August 2017 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

University of Lausanne. (2025, May 1). Why did some ancient animals fossilize while others vanished?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 ...

Credit: Shutterstock Though you may be the most familiar with fossils that look like the Triceratops above, there are many different types of fossils that result from a variety of different forms of ...

Scientists Ruin Delicious Seabass to Probe Why Some Organs Don’t Fossilize. Watching fish rot for more than two months disproves a long-standing fossilization theory. By Sasha Warren.

"Bones fossilize really well, but unfortunately behavior doesn't," he says. Sponsor Message. That might be why proof of T. rex's eating habits has been so difficult to pin down, ...

A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones. Danny Lewis. November 9, 2015. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!