The new fossil prints, as well as the previously discovered tracks, were formed when the early hominids walked across a stretch of wet volcanic ash that hardened into a clay-like material, ...

New fossil prints reveal killer claws. The six-million-year-old tracks of a giant carnivorous bird show that this hunter was not so different from its earlier dinosaur relatives.

Hundreds of fossils are available in an online database. ... Download and 3D-print real fossils for free. By Amy Kraft. February 19, 2016 / 12:18 PM EST / CBS News ...

This is because of how deep the animal’s heel left an impression in the fossil. “Our trackways are very narrow-looking - more like a crocodile balancing on a tight-rope,” he told the BBC.

The Ice Age ended about 11,700 years ago, and the fossil record of ground sloths indicates they were extinct by this time. At White Sands, the scientists used an approach called relative dating to ...

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

Author Paige Williams brings the discussion to life by recounting the exploits of commercial fossil hunter Eric Prokopi, highlighting one find — a 24-ft.-long Tarbosaurus fossil, the book's star.

The five fossil prints are part of what's known as the Laetoli site, a zone of volcanic ash on which an ancient menagerie roamed, from relatives of elephants and rhinoceros to tiny guineafowl.

An Archaeopteryx fossil. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers studying tracks fossilized in Cretaceous-era lakeshore mud in what is now South Korea argue this week in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Dusting for prints from a fossil fish to understand evolutionary change Pennsylvania highway roadcut yields new species of armored fish from Devonian period ...

“3D printing will be a step change in the science of palaeontology once the costs come down,” says Louise Leakey, who runs a virtual fossil museum, AfricanFossils.org, in conjunction with the ...