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 ...

How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones ...

Now that you’ve learned about different fossil types, you can play Fossilize Me! In this game you are creating fossils by matching them with the correct fossilization process and the resulting fossil.

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 ...

How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

Gelatinous with no bones or scales, jellyfish fossilize poorly. Waves and sand destroy their bodies before they can be covered in sediment - essential for the slow process of fossilization.

Clarke figures that since the syrinx can fossilize that the lack of syrinx fossils discovered in dinosaur fossils so far suggest the creatures lacked this structure.

A Cretaceous mantis fossil is helping scientists piece together how these insects evolved their prey-nabbing adaptations.