Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

"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 ...

even included the oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified anywhere in the world—it dates back about 153,000 years. Now we've documented a cluster of nine hominin trace fossil sites at Brenton ...

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 ...

A footprint hypothesized to have been created by a Homo erectus individual. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

They show an organism was there, but are not the actual organism itself (which would be a body fossil). Dinosaur footprints and worm burrows are examples of trace fossils, as are coprolites ...

A team of researchers from Okayama University of Science (OUS) in Japan and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...