The fish that made the 6-foot features are only about 3½ inches long. Recently, some similar-looking trace fossils were found in Xinjian Province in extreme northwestern China. A fossil is any ...

The late scientist is credited with creating a subfield devoted to the trace fossils left behind by the extinct reptiles. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 9, 2023 8:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science ...

“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 ...

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 ...

At the end of a short burrow is the body of the trilobite Agraulos ceticephalus, leaving no question as to the animal which created the trace. The fossil may even provide some insight into how ...

The trace fossil FOBU-12718. The bottom photograph includes color-coded dots to denote which part of the fish made each part of the trace. From Martin et al. 2010. Found by a private fossil ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers found the trace fossils in Gabon, along Africa's west coast. A trace fossil is a fossil that was not part of an organism's body that it leaves behind, such as a footprint ...