Many of these sediment blocks ended up at the museum's FossiLab, where a team of volunteers spent thousands of hours, often in view of curious museum visitors, carefully chiseling rock away from bones ...

A single deposit has produced a wealth of fossils revealing the late Triassic ecosystem, where giant amphibians cohabited with newcomers, including turtles and pterosaurs. The 12 million years leading ...

However, the ability to tell apart genera from more temperate regions of Sahul does present an opportunity to try to identify bones found in more tropical areas, where closely related species ...

Peptide markers in collagen can help us identify species from fragments of bone too damaged to recognize, and fossils found in places that are too hot or humid to preserve DNA. A team of ...

Trail cameras set up to record an at-risk mouse species ended up photographing the even rarer animal.

Ecologists in Australia flipped through thousands of photos taken on trail cameras at a national park. They were looking for photos of an at-risk mouse species — but noticed several images of a ...