Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.

Almost every U.S. state has designated either an official state dinosaur and/or state fossil symbol. Only five states have none, although other states have more than one. Washington, D.C. also has one ...

“I’m used to working on fossils that preserve in a different mode called ‘permineralization,’” Atkinson said. “This is my first paper on a compression fossil, and it was a little bit nerve-wracking, ...

"I'm used to working on fossils that preserve in a different mode called 'permineralization,'" Atkinson said. "This is my first paper on a compression fossil, and it was a little bit nerve ...

Petrified wood is formed through a process called permineralization, and water is the key agent here too. Permineralization happens when materials from plants or bones are impregnated by mineral ...

"The former process is called permineralization, while the latter is simply called replacement." "[It] can take a very long time on a human time-scale, but sometimes we see cases of amazingly ...

Not as dramatic as an earthquake or as awe-inspiring as a volcano, but instrumental in shaping our understanding of the Earth. They are our only link to millions and millions of years of life that ...