Between 29 million and 50 million years ago, Oregon was teeming with life. Shorebirds searched for food in shallow water, ...

Trace fossil – Trace fossils are traces or marks left behind by an organism. They show an organism was there, but are not the actual organism itself (which would be a body fossil). Dinosaur footprints ...

Everyone gets [into paleontology] seeing the big skeletons and things like that and it’s really easy to overlook these burrows or these tracks, but trace fossils are a great accent to a body fossil.

A new analysis of fossil footprints suggests that the 2-meter-tall ... Scientists uncovered 500-million-year-old fossilized burrows, up to 600 microns in diameter, made by one of the world’s first ...

However, finding the tiny burrows the pint-sized animals left behind left scientists with the difficult job of figuring out who made them. Without finding fossils of the creatures themselves ...

Trace fossils are the tracks and burrows left by living organisms, not physical remains such as bones or body parts. The fossils were discovered in sediment in the Corumbá region of western Brazil, ...

Main research themes are: (1) Trace fossils through time: using fossil burrows, tracks and trails as records of the responses of benthic animals to past climate change; patterns and implications of ...