Claudia Steffensen was hiking in the Italian Alps last summer when she stepped on a rock that caught her eye. "It seemed more ...

A chance discovery by a hiker in the Italian Alps has led scientists to the remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, ...

Their efforts to understand the formation and dynamics of these systems have resulted in new methods for surveying and exploiting deep, unconventional fossil fuel resources. These have helped in ...

Fossilised shells are also body fossils. Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints, imprints of their skin or feathers, and poo - ...

Much of my work focuses on tapping information available in permineralized coprolites (fossil feces), but I also examine other trace and body fossils. My work focuses on understanding interactions ...

Trace fossils are preserved in places where subsequent mountain-forming forces did not destroy the original structure of the Cambrian sediments. These trace fossils record the oldest burrowing and ...

Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago. A ...

This can include fossil bones, claws, teeth, shells, tree trunks and leaves. Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. These can include imprints of skin or feathers, eggs ...