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

"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 ...

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 1914, now 111 years ago, thousands of fossil footprints from the Late Carboniferous were discovered by Doctor Frank Raw (Geology Department, University of Birmingham) at Butts Quarry in Alveley, ...

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.

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 ...

This massive footprint is believed to belong to a giant Saurolophus, a duck-billed dinosaur estimated to exceed 15 meters in length. This would make it larger than even famous predators like ...

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints. The fossilized neck bone ...

Kimolo Mulwa at the site of the first hominin footprint discovery in 1978. Deep, sand-filled depressions to his left show hippopotamus tracks in cross section. Credit: Anna K. Behrensmeyer We ...

The footprints were found in some popular hadrosaur ... and group behavior — details that cannot be inferred from skeletal fossils,” expedition leader Dr. Shiobu Ishigaki explained during ...

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 ...