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.

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.

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world’s most ...

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 ...

Ancient cat fossils, paw prints recovered from beneath Texas Hill Country by: Eric Henrikson. Posted: Jan 13, 2023 / 08:44 AM CST. Updated: Jan 13, 2023 / 03:06 PM CST.

The fossil was brought to the attention of John Long at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and his colleagues, who dated the slab to around 356 million years ago. This is more than 35 ...

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 ...

While walking along the English island's Wessex Formation coast on Wednesday, Feb. 12, Joe Thompson stumbled upon a rare, purple dinosaur print imprinted in clay, according to an Instagram post ...

For 20 years, this school had no idea there was a dinosaur fossil right outside The boulder in an Australian school foyer was covered in what looked like chicken feet — if those chickens were ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals, according to a study published in Nature today 1.

An artist’s impression of Mosura fentoni, a 2.5-inch radiodont found in the Burgess Shale of Canada. ... Fossils of many early arthropod ancestors, including other radiodonts, ...