About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was ...

“Trace fossils definitely do tell stories,” said Conner Bennett, lead author of a study describing the find and three others that was published in February in the journal Palaeontologia ...

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), ...

Body and trace fossils left by Quaestio, both around 2 inches in diameter. The body fossil can be seen near the top of the image, while the trace is the smooth impression at the bottom.

A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...

Scientists in Brazil identified marine worms that made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites. By Priyanka Runwal If you know where to look, you can find dumbbell-shaped fossils in ...

While aardvarks leave many easily identifiable traces in their environments, the trace fossil record, including tracks, tail impressions, feeding traces, burrows, and even coprolites (fossil feces ...

These tracks, also known as trace fossils, include worm burrows, footprints, beak marks and impressions of claws that can tell scientists a lot about the animals that made them. Taking preserved ...

Fossilized feliform tracks discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. This collection of trace fossils are between 29 to 50 million years old and give additional context ...

“One of the most exciting moments when excavating the bed where we found many Quaestio was when we flipped over a rock, brushed it off, and spotted what was obviously a trace fossil behind a ...

The bias of the fossil record This helps explain why many ... animals may have lived and died without leaving any physical trace. Their bodies decomposed so quickly, or failed to create the ...