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When does a bone become a fossil?

As organic material in a bone gets replaced by minerals over time, it becomes a fossil. But that can happen at different rates even within the same individual

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Two new sabretooth cat species identified from fossils in South Africa

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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

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Fossil of pregnant ground sloth discovered with fetus inside

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Ancient alligator had a stubby snout and may have chomped on snails

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Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation

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Extinct lizard was a bizarrely supersized version of modern skinks

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Tam Pà Ling cave in northern Laos, where several human fossils dating back tens of thousands of years have been found

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Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago

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Ancient mass extinction may have driven millipedes to eat meat

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Ancient mass extinction may have driven millipedes to eat meat

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Broad-nosed ancient shark was one of earliest fish to smell in stereo

Fossils found in Morocco show the sensory specialisation of a 365-million-year-old shark, given the species name Maghriboselache mohamezanei

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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction

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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags

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