MIT chemists offer a new explanation for how collagen in dinosaur bones may have survived millions of years: An atomic-level interaction prevents its bonds from being broken down by water.

The combination of a triple-helix chemical structure and a quantum mechanical effect create a strong substance with chemical bonds that resists breakdown by water.

Detection of soft tissues (e.g., proteins) in fossil bones is a growing field of study and a new study led by University of Liverpool paleontologists contributes to the list of such findings.

The new findings potentially give scientists a "ready-made trove of fossil candidates" to explore.

"Jurassic Park" is arguably the ultimate Hollywood blockbuster. Aside from the appeal of human-chomping dinosaurs, tense action sequences and ground-breaking cinematography, its release in 1993 was a movies-meet-science milestone.

Paleontologists have analyzed 125-million-year-old feathers from a dinosaur species called Sinornithosaurus as well as feathers of the early bird Confuciusornis and a 50-million-year-old feather from the Green River biota.

A new study's re-analysis of 19th-century fossils found it may have come from a giant ancient ichthyosaur.

The sordid details of how dinosaurs had sex have long eluded scientists. Now there's a new idea emerging – could their most eccentric features tell us how they did it?

Very large unidentified elongate and rounded fossilized bones of uncertain origin recovered from different Late Triassic localities across Europe have been puzzling the paleontological community since the second half of the 19th century.

Paleontologists found "nucleus-like" structures in a Miocene turtle fossil from Panama.

Mysterious fragments of fossilized bone proposed to be from a creature approaching the size of a blue whale could technically have been left by any one of a number of long-extinct giants.

Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various regions across Western and Central Europe since the 19th century. The animal group to which they belonged is still the subject of much debate to this day. A study carried out at the University of Bonn could now settle this dispute once and for all: The microstructure of the fossils indicates that they come from the lower jaw of a…

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