Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and ...

Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of trace fossil and a window into the lives of dinosaurs. They formed in the same way our footprints do when walking on soft ground like mud.

A small but fascinating collection of Megalodon teeth exhibit deep bite marks from other Megalodons, raising questions about ...

These types of fossils are "a wonderful illustration of things that were going on just before the giant [asteroid] impact, normal life in the ecosystem. It's a trace of that action.

To reconstruct the timeline of ecosystem recovery on land, Tian and colleagues analyzed trace ... fossils from this period indicate a monospecific community, meaning that only a single type ...

Ichnospecies are organisms identified only through trace fossils, or fossils that are of ... the only direct evidence our country has of the types of dinosaurs we had here (during earlier times ...