The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...

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 ...

For many years, scientists believed that organic molecules could not survive in fossils, as the fossilization process was ...

The fossilization process involving volcanic ash in shallow marine settings has led to 3D preservation, according to the researchers. According to researchers, trilobites are some of the best ...

The team subjected the fossil hip to various analytical techniques ... how the amino acids managed to survive the fossilization process. "This is the subject of ongoing research worldwide ...

meaning it wasn’t caused during the fossilization process, and cemented and compacted material inside the hole suggest it wasn’t a recent puncture caused by tools, according to the study.

For many years, it has been widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilization process was thought to destroy them. Now, a groundbreaking study, led ...

rex in 2007, but such finds are contested by other researchers, who argue any original proteins would have been replaced by the fossilization process long ago. So, University of Liverpool engineer ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death. Students from the University of Reading in the United ...