In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have long assumed that fossilization destroys all organic molecules in ancient remains. However, a ...

But in Australia, since the oldest fossilized dinosaur bones come from the Middle Jurassic, about 160 million years ago, “footprint fossils are the only direct evidence our country has of the ...

movement and behavior from a time when no fossilized dinosaur bones have been found in Australia," Romilio said. Each footprint has three toes, indicating that they belong to the ichnospecies ...

The findings shed light on how organic molecules like collagen may survive for tens of millions of years within dinosaur ...