Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

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You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...