Fossils are so common in Pennsylvania Bluestone that Glass often points out prehistoric plant fragments and ancient tide ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Grooves in rock formations of Jaisalmer are believed to be trails of marine worms that once wriggled along ocean floor, says ...

The burrows didn’t match anything seen in the fossil record before. “The fact that nobody had seen something similar convinced us that this is a new trace fossil species,” Löwemark says.

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 ...

Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

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) shows three large burrows with an infill feature, (B) shows a smaller tunnel connecting a cavity to the surface, (C) shows an infill feature shown by black arrow in A , and (D) shows an 18 cm ...

A trace fossil is a complete movie,” lead study author Jorge Fernando Genise, a paleontologist at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires, says in an email.

To reconstruct the timeline of ecosystem recovery on land, Tian and colleagues analyzed trace fossils (such as burrows and footprints), plant remains and vertebrate fossils preserved in ...

Let us know via [email protected]. Update 16/10/24, 2:26 p.m. ET: This article was updated with a photograph of Quaestio body and trace fossils, as well as additional comments from Scott Evans.