A recent fossil discovery adds a surprising new member to the diverse array of animals that lived in the Petrified Forest 220 million years ago during the Triassic Period: an early mammal relative the ...

The petrified remains of wood, shells, bones, and teeth are standard repositories of these fossils. In addition to serving as decorative and educational pieces, fossils from Alaska are purchased for ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions ...

It started with a petrified tree, half-buried in the mud of the Mokelumne River watershed in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The site intrigued Greg Francek, a ranger for East Bay Municipal Utility ...

For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions about the fossil, unearthed along with thousands of others during a ...