Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

According to Professor John Long from Flinders University, these imprints challenge the traditional view of reptile evolution ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

(CNN) — About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak ...