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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A Megalosaurus is believed to have left these three-toed footprints Dr. Duncan Murdock, earth scientist at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, explains that while fossils present us with ...

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 ...

"Fossil crocodile tracks are quite rare in Asia, so finding an abundance of nearly one hundred footprints was extraordinary," palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio from the University of Queensland ...