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Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails. There are all ...

This image shows a Fuxianhuia protensa specimen from the Chenjiang fossil beds in southwest China. The ancient arthropod was just under 5 inches in length. Xiaoya Ma, London Museum of Natural ...

A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones. Danny Lewis. November 9, 2015. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Fossils aren’t the preserve of dead dinosaurs and ancient insects. Believe it or not, you could ensure that your body lives on, perfectly preserved in stone, for ever more. You just need to die ...

Gelatinous with no bones or scales, jellyfish fossilize poorly. Waves and sand destroy their bodies before they can be covered in sediment - essential for the slow process of fossilization.

In this resource, you will learn about some of the environmental conditions that contribute to fossilization, and why some parts of organisms are more likely to fossilize than others parts. For anyone ...

McMenamin thinks that an unknown adult animal deposited the pellets to form a nest around a clutch of its eggs, which failed to fossilize. "The hatchlings then fed on organic matter in the pellets ...

Scientists Ruin Delicious Seabass to Probe Why Some Organs Don’t Fossilize. Watching fish rot for more than two months disproves a long-standing fossilization theory. By Sasha Warren.