Remember twenty years ago, when we thought dinosaurs were terrifying reptile monsters that we could make movies about? In such a short time, we’ve learned they were feathered, not as cold-blooded as once thought, a...

Instead of water, some lakes are filled with the g...  ...rible way to die, but a fantastic way to preserve fossils .We use the tar itself for paving roads and sealin...

(Unrelated photo by Wilson Hui)How did the Urinato...  ...ked down at his target, he realized that it was a fossil . It was an Allosaurus, which he knicknamed Urinat...  ...'s research. But other scientists have also found fossils through unusual encounters. Smithsonian magazine...  ...ien's pre-menstrual meetin...

Most of states in the US have official state fossils -43, to be exact- but there’s no convention...  ...no convention for choosing or identifying a state fossil , so each state does its own thing. Some select a...  ...tate does its own thing. Some select a species of fossil...

University of Portsmouth professor David Martill d...  ...snake -in a museum. It was labeled “unknown fossil ” at the Bürgermeister Müller Muse...  ...t as a snake, but what about those four legs? The fossil was collected from Brazil and dated to the early...  ...akes and lizards.) Archaeop...

A near-complete fossil specimen, including feathers, of a dinosaur in Ch...

One reason dinosaurs capture our imagination is th...  ...big, too. It all depends on how you measure them. Fossils of extinct animals are hard to measure, but Spani...

Remember when all those zookeepers imitated Chris Pratt's velociraptor training pose from the movie Jurassic World? Well, museum curators want in on the fun, too! Here's one tweeted by The Smithsonian:...

There were plenty of hominids of the Australopithe...  ...be enshrined in a museum if you were to become a fossil after you die? What are the chances of that happe...  ...athing moments, to goose your chances of become a fossil , but, he says, there’s no way to guarantee...  ...says, there’s no way t...

Redditor Proteon posted this image of a fossilized snail turned to opal recently. Opal forms in cavi...  ...s are right for opal formation, then opal forms a fossilized