No one expects to see trees that look like jewels in the high desert of Arizona. But that’s exactly what visitors find in the ...

Greg Francek, a ranger naturalists with the East Bay MUD, first discovered the fossils while patrolling near the town of Valley Springs in July 2020. He initially noticed a petrified tree ...

Tracks found in Central Texas are believed to belong to the Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur, which has also left footprints behind ...

Few tree fossils that date back to Earth’s earliest forests have ever been found, according to Gastaldo. Their discovery helps fill in some missing pieces of an incomplete fossil record.

Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you've ever seen Date: February 2, 2024 Source: Cell Press Summary: In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only ...

A fossil is made up of minerals that have hardened, and has the same shape as the original object. Imagine if you took a quarter and pushed it down into some molding clay or Silly Putty.

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don’t usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. But now ...