How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones ...

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 ...

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 ...

What types of animal remains do you think you could find at La Brea Tar Pits? Based on your chicken and teratorn observations, you probably guessed that only the “hard parts” (i.e., the bones) of a ...

When scientists presented evidence of an ancient, fossilized brain a few years ago, it challenged the long-held notion that brains don't fossilize. Now, seven new specimens have been unearthed ...

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 ...

Spider fossils glow under UV light, a clue to their remarkable preservation Combination of anaerobic environment and sulfurization created stable carbon-rich films.

Most of what we know about ancient extinct animals comes from their bones, since soft tissues don’t usually fossilize well. But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate ...

How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones ...