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Fossilization

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450‑Million‑Year‑Old Crinoid Shows Rare Fossilized Tube Feet

The specimen offers direct evidence of feeding anatomy in early crinoids and changes what scientists can learn about Ordovician reef ecology.

Mummified Permian Reptile Reveals Oldest Rib-Powered Breathing System

Mosasaur Tooth Shows Bus-Sized Marine Reptiles Hunted in Cretaceous Rivers

Study Finds 16,000+ Dinosaur Footprints at Bolivian Tracksite, Including Record Swim Traces

New Filter-Feeding Pterosaur, Bakiribu Waridza, Described From Fossilized Vomit

Orange Lichens Guide Drones to Dinosaur Fossils in Peer-Reviewed Study

Wyoming 'Mummy' Fossils Show Duck-Billed Dinosaur Had Hooves, Not Preserved Skin

First Paranthropus Boisei Hand Reveals Human-Like Dexterity With Gorilla-Like Power

Denver Museum Displays 67.5-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Vertebra Unearthed Beneath Parking Lot

Grinding Tomography Reveals 40 New Squid Species in 100-Million-Year-Old Rock

113-Million-Year-Old Hell Ant Fossil Identified as Oldest Known Ant

66-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Vomit Offers Insights Into Cretaceous Food Chains

Largest 'Terror Bird' Fossil Discovered in Colombia

450-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Found Preserved in Fool's Gold

Discovery of 60-Million-Year-Old Grape Fossils Links Extinction of Dinosaurs to Spread of Grapes