Fossil Butte National Monument is around 15 minutes from the town of Kemmerer, where you can stay and dine, as you can't camp in the park. It's also around 2.5 hours from the easy-to-navigate Salt ...

In a fossil bone you will be able to see the different canals and webbed structure of the bone, sure signs that the object was of biological origin. You can even try a tongue test.

For instance, volcanic blasts produce plumes of ash that occasionally bury organisms. Before their bodies are burned away by the torrents of magma, that are spewed onto the surface of the planet, they ...

Fossil Of 'Jaggermeryx' Found Namesake In Another Stone Scientists have named an extinct pig-like creature with big lips after Mick Jagger. Their findings will be published in the September issue ...

With just two inhabited buildings and a population of five, Fossil, Wyo., is all but a ghost town today. But as far as ghosts go, the ones at Fossil are pretty remarkable — 50-million-year-old ...

Fossil marks suggest hominids butchered one another around 1.45 million years ago. Whether stone-tool marks on a leg bone are a sign of ancient cannibalism is up for debate ...

Fossils can set boundaries for hypotheses that are generated from living developmental systems, ... R. Written in stone: fossils, genes and evo–devo. Nat Rev Genet 8, 911–920 (2007) ...

Paleontologists unearthed a first of its kind fossil from 100 million years ago, the Queensland Museum said. Screengrab from the Queensland Museum Network's YouTube video. An extremely rare ...