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The bake-a-fossil technique turned a fresh lizard foot crispy and brown.
dinosaurs

How to Make a Fossil in a Single Day

The recipe calls for fresh feathers or lizard feet, clay, heat, and a whole lot of pressure.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 25, 2018
Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Natural History Museum of Mongolia

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.
Museum visitors brought all sorts of finds spanning thousands of years.
museums

A Museum's Treasured Tradition of Identifying Fossils for the Public

Including the occasional turd.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 6, 2018
The Flaming Cliffs.
Bulgan, Mongolia

Flaming Cliffs

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.
Human foot for scale
Holyoke, Massachusetts

Dinosaur Footprints of Holyoke

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
The sign near the fossil helps by adding some lines.
Iannazzo, Italy

Monte Alpi's Fish Fossil

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.
There is a life-size model of this egg in the Birds of the World Natural History exhibition.
museums

The Biggest Bird Eggs Ever

Evidence of the extinct.
Christina Ayele Djossa May 11, 2018
Another <em>Megatherium</em> on view at the Natural History Museum.
bones

A Digital Look at Darwin’s Trove of Prehistoric Fossils

London’s Natural History Museum is putting the naturalist’s haul of skulls, molars, and more online.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 13, 2018
Antarctica was once covered in forests instead of ice.
forests

Why Antarctica's Prehistoric Forests Might Foreshadow Its Future

Hidden on the frozen continent are clues to its greener past.
Sarah Laskow April 3, 2018
The femur and tibia bones of a pterosaur.
reptiles

Found: Fossilized Pterodactyls With 30-Foot Wingspans

These prehistoric reptiles reigned over the skies 66 million years ago.
Christina Ayele Djossa March 16, 2018
The GIRI machine grinds a sample beneath a rapidly spinning, diamond-tipped wheel.
science

How Geologists Peer Inside a Rock

After they found prehistoric fossils in the Canadian Rockies, researchers pulverized them to make 3D reconstructions.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 6, 2018
Like other members of the enantiornithine family, the fossilized fledgling (reconstructed here) likely had claws on its wings.
animals

Found: A 127-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Fledgling

These tiny, prehistoric bones tell a story about flight.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 5, 2018
Red-eared sliders: cute but trouble.
turtles

Found: A 5.5-Million-Year-Old Ancestor of the Red-Eared Slider

The ancient relative of a popular (but invasive) pet.
Vittoria Traverso February 27, 2018
Fragments of prehistoric life are embedded all over the urban landscape. But you have to look close.
architecture

How to Spot the Fossils Hiding in Plain Sight

Traces of prehistoric life are everywhere.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 23, 2018
The lands of Bears Ears are a trove of treasures of geology, archaeology, and paleontology.
fossils

Found: A Rich Collection of Triassic Fossils at Bears Ears

Another wonder from a wild place now left unprotected.
Vittoria Traverso February 23, 2018
Two large fossilized mammoth tracks.
science

The Stories Hidden in Fossilized Mammoth Footprints

What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 14, 2018
The two sides of a 90-million-year-old fossilized fish found in the flagstones at a Colombian monastery.
fossils

Found: A Fossilized Fish in a Monastery Flagstone

A 10-year-old boy on a tour spotted the fossil and reported it to a local museum.
Vittoria Traverso February 1, 2018
The most recently discovered <em>Archaeopteryx</em> fossil is also the oldest.
animals

Found: Evidence That Archaeopteryx Evolved Like Darwin's Finches

When southern Germany was an archipelago, these bird-like dinos may have specialized by island.
Vittoria Traverso January 26, 2018