A set of footprints impressed in clay in the Honseca Cave (Velilla del Río Carrión, Palencia), which were made by cave bears ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

"In addition, processing the model has allowed us to generate images that highlight the shape of each individual footprint," adds Benito. Fossil footprints are not named after the species believed ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest two-legged animals ever to roam the Earth.

Part of one the largest ever stegosaur fossil found in the UK is set to return to the town it was found in. The bone came ...

A GIANT horned dinosaur species has been unearthed – despite the bones’ destruction in World War Two. The groundbreaking discovery of the 10-metre-long skeleton was made after ...

Giant tracks discovered underground have offered an "extraordinary window" into the lives of the giants that roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...

The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.

The footprints were more than three feet long ... a dinosaur some 60 feet long and weighing roughly two tons, because of previous fossil finds in the area. The tracks also give scientists some ...

They also include “trace fossils,” or vestiges of ancient life, such as footprints, burrows and eggs. Scientific names are sometimes given to trace fossils when it is not easy to identify the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire. This remarkable find ...