Mummified fossils are also essentially unaltered. Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a freezer preserves food. In ...

Numerous exceptionally well-preserved animal fossils have been unearthed there. The Geiseltal Collection at MLU comprises 50,000 fossils and is considered a national heritage asset. These fossils ...

Understanding geology is critical to studying paleontology because fossils are preserved in rock. The characteristics of the rocks that hold fossils can be as informative as the fossils themselves.

For many years, it has been widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilization process was thought to destroy them. Now, a groundbreaking study, led ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...