Miners in Spain found giant reef fossils from an ancient ocean. This quarrying activity exposed a buried ecosystem. Similar discoveries in Britain also revealed ancient marine life. These fossil reefs ...

Imagine yourself in an open-air quarry in Bavaria, breaking open a slab of finely grained limestone, and seeing a beautifully preserved feather inside. This very thing happened at Solnhofen in Germany ...

The nearly human-size pterosaur from Brazil had a gargantuan head crest and was likely a better walker than a flyer. Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete ...

Idaho National Laboratory is perhaps best known for innovative research that helps shape the clean energy economies of today and tomorrow—and for good reason. But while much of the laboratory's work ...

Among the 3,000 fossils seized at a Brazilian port in 2013 was an almost complete skeleton from the pterosaur species Tupandactylus navigans, preserved in six limestone slabs. By Vimal Patel Limestone ...