Why Are Fossils Only Found in Sedimentary Rocks? Dig into the three different types of rock, and discover why only one of these types features fossils.

First up on our list of oldest fossils ever found are the microfossils of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt. The rock sequence ...

A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture, buried beneath volcanic ash in Italy, has unveiled an unexpected scientific ...

Although local shales typically contain fewer fossils than the fossil-rich limestone with which they are interlayered, they nevertheless preserve valuable information about where the sediments came ...

International Rock Day is observed every year on July 13 to recognise the natural wonders of rocks and stones and their ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...

Searching for fossils in the sedimentary rock layers at the Dominquez- Escalante National Conservation Area located between Grand Junction and Delta. Anita Evans Courtesy of Friends of Youth and ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

According to the new study, the scientists have named the speedy, dog-sized dinosaur Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae.

Sedimentary rocks are made up of tiny broken pieces of rocks, crystals or minerals. They can often contain fossils from when they were formed millions of years ago.

For the study, Briggs and his colleagues focused on sedimentary rocks similar to the Burgess Shale, an area of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. The Burgess Shale deposit, which dates back 508 ...

The red rocks are part of the Sespe formation — a 20-to-40-million-year-old geologic deposit of sedimentary rocks and fossils in Southern and Central California known for its unique layers of ...