Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

Plant fossils found in the abdomen of a sauropod support the long-standing hypothesis that these dinosaurs were herbivores, finds a study publishing June 9 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology.

The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock are rainbow-colored trunks of prehistoric conifers, the crumbling bones of ...

Fossil wood serves as a vital archive for understanding Earth’s past terrestrial ecosystems. The structural features preserved in fossil wood, such as growth rings and cellular arrangements, offer ...