We don’t have the body of this bird. It’s more just like we’re left with its actions, its behaviors. It’s like trying to ...

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ...

Bennett also analyzed two other trace fossils — from mammals from a more recent time period. One showed prints of a three-toed ungulate, possibly a rhinoceros or ancient tapir. The other ...

The discovery of footprints dating back as far as 50 million years ago is offering insight into behaviors of prehistoric ...

“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 ...