Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

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

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

When an organism dies and is quickly covered by layers of mud, sand or silt, it has the potential to become a fossil. Rather than rotting away, some parts of its body are replaced by minerals. In some ...

A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

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

Coprolites are the fossilised faeces of animals that lived millions of years ago. They are trace fossils, meaning not of the animal's actual body. A coprolite like this can give scientists clues about ...

While the park is mostly known for what are commonly called body fossils, things like teeth or bones, this discovery was different. Conner Bennett led the team that uncovered the fossilized ...

A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints ...