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

A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times.

Fossilized animal tracks dating back 50 million years have been discovered at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, tracks that offer unprecedented insight into the behaviors of prehistoric animals ...

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument could provide new insight into how prehistoric animals lived in Oregon. The ...

STEVE COWAN: Trying to figure out where all this plastic was coming from, our first stop was the petrochemical facilities, these giant ethane crackers that produce plastic from natural gas and fossil ...

“Our site's famous for that unique sitting trace fossil,” Milner said. “It was the first trace evidence of how the limbs of these animals were positioned in life. It shows they could a basketball but ...

Our purpose was to compare our own interpretations of fossil trackways with those of the Master Trackers, and possibly find some we had overlooked. As we've set out in a recently published paper ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years. A new species of fossil ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old ...

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New fossils are still uncovered in Hong Kong. The most recent discovery last year was an ammonite piece and trace fossil containing evidence of previous life forms in mudflats. There is always ...

A new analysis of fossil footprints suggests that the 2-meter-tall, 4- to 5-meter-long carnivores that left them could run nearly 45 kilometers per hour, bolstering the evidence that at least some ...