Teeth from extinct species like Otodus obliquus (an ancestor of the legendary Megalodon) are commonly found in New Jersey’s ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Excavations at a 2,000-year-old settlement in Spain have yielded the first ever trilobite fossil from Roman times. Found in a trash heap associated with a high-status household, the specimen appears ...

Experts analyzed 170 trace fossils from millions of years before the Cambrian Period and assert that advanced features may have been a reality before the explosion.

These 545-million-year-old fossil trails just rewrote the story of evolution Date: June 27, 2025 Source: University of Barcelona Summary: A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian ...

However, the study of trace fossils (or ichnofossils) opens up the possibility of discovering what the activity of hard-bodied, soft-bodied or skeletally deficient organisms preserved in the ...

This is a 3D print of a slug track. It is a cast made of plastic PLA filament and painted to replicate a slab of an imprint from Climactichnites, a trace fossil of a slug-like organism, from the Paleo ...

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