The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trace fossils include burrows, track marks, coprolites (fossilized feces), stromatolites (fossilized algal mounds), and rhizoliths or rhizocretions (fossil remains of roots).

Discovered in the Yehliu Geopark and Badouzi promontory of the island, the burrows are what are known as trace fossils—preserved imprints left behind by the activities of ancient animals.

Trace fossils can take many forms, including fossilized animal burrows, footprints, tracks, trails, nests, eggs and, of course, fossilized poop.

Giant worms may have burrowed into the ancient seafloor to ambush prey Trace fossils are possible evidence of predatory behavior similar to modern bobbit worms ...

One-of-a-kind fossilized burrows unearthed in Taiwan suggest giant predatory worms colonized the Eurasian seafloor during the Miocene, some 20 million years ago.

As the name suggests, trace fossils do not preserve the body of a creature, but the traces it leaves behind—whether trails, footprints, burrows, or resting impressions.

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 ...