How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display? What do paleontologists do? How does a fossil go from being in the ground to on display in a museum? Learn the process and all the ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. You may have heard of the widely-used carbon dating ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

Amber is an ancient sticky tree tar that holds a type of fossil called inclusions or mummies. Find out why this type of fossil is so special. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

Why it's incredible: The forest dates back to the late Jurassic, when dinosaurs still roamed Earth. The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year-old clump of dead trees on the Jurassic Coast — a ...