Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their ...

After spending millions of years tucked away in rocks, fossils can sometimes resemble a completely different living thing. A turtle fossil might even bear a striking resemblance to a plant. When a ...

Two small, oval fossils thought to be prehistoric plants are actually the remains of baby marine turtles, researchers have revealed. The fossils, found in rocks dating to between 132 and 113 million ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles&#39 ...

Minuscule, fossilized pieces of plants tell a detailed story of what Earth looked like 50 million years ago. Researchers have discovered a way of determining density of trees, shrubs and bushes in ...

Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and ...

Credit Ali Budner / 91.5 KRCC Paleontologist Tyler Lyson points to a crocodilian fossil embedded in a rock concretion. Corral Bluffs is a windswept rocky outcropping just about 15 miles east of ...

(CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed. Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once ...

The two leaf fossils were discovered in a rock layer in southwestern China that dates to between 259 million and 252 million years ago. In both species, the leaves were broad, with serrated edges.

Fossils from that era 66 ... The unprecedented find includes thousands of exceptionally preserved animal and plant fossils from the critical first ... "Inside the rocks, are whole ...

The forest in which these plant fossils were found dates back 53 million years, according to a news release about the find from the University of Adelaide. "The fossils tell an incredible story.