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

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

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...

rex in 2007, but such finds are contested by other researchers, who argue any original proteins would have been replaced by the fossilization process long ago.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

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.