Victor Beccari couldn't shake the feeling he had seen the fossil before: it was a slab of rock containing the impression of a ...

Initially discovered in 1988, the fossil sat in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils for decades, ... A larger imprint allowed researchers to confirm the species to which it belonged.

The fossil imprints, while lacking any bones of the animals, actually contain rare information that bones cannot, said Lucas. Without the imprints of the webbed four-toed feet, ...

Fossil raindrops tell us a fair bit about ancient atmosphere Some 2.7 billion year old raindrop imprints are helping researchers wrestle … Scott K. Johnson – Mar 29, 2012 10:25 am | 37 ...

A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.

A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum's fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.

Find fossils of the future. Insects still get stuck in tree sap, under a rock, or inside tar (even if it’s just on your driveway). Have kids search for fossils-in-the-making to compare with ...

We didn’t always know what spider footprints looked like. When paleontologist Raymond Alf (the museum’s namesake) retrieved the fossil in 1968, he did some experimenting to determine whether ...

Geometric fossils in marine sediments have a story to tell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ghostly imprints of tiny ...

Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient plants or animals that have been preserved in rock, a process that takes many, many years. Fossils are not bones. In fact, they more closely resemble ...

The wader, Daniel Holm, is from a Morris, Ill., family that has hunted and sold Mazon Creek fossils for 60 years. Wittry, a self-trained amateur paleontologist, has been at it for just as long ...