WASHINGTON-In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...

At least it was a quick death. Scientists have discovered that ancient animals preserved in the famous Burgess Shale fossil deposit were killed by a mud slurry that buried them so deep their whole ...

Half-naked climate activists showered themselves with mud in Rome, Italy, to protest the use of fossil fuels and to remind people of the dangers of flooding. Last week, severe flooding led to the ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

66 million years ago, a giant duck-billed dinosaur walked through a coastal swamp. Nearby lay the sun-dried carcass of another dinosaur. Soon, a flood swept over them. Tens of millions of years later, ...

Hundreds of prehistoric fossils were discovered in the Mokelumne River watershed in Calaveras County, the East Bay Municipal Utility District recently announced. Dozens of ancient species’ bones ...

Some 65 million years ago he stalked what is now northwestern South Dakota, no doubt earning his nickname the “Tyrant King.” In all likelihood, this Tyrannosaurus rex specimen took his last step and ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The last-ditch struggle of Tongtianlong limosus as it was mired in mud is seen in an undated artist reconstruction ...