These specific mud cracks are located on Mount Sharp inside ... no preserved geologic evidence from that time. The oldest known fossil is an imprint of bacteria, which he said captures a time ...

Kranz finds a rock with mud cracks, lines in the surface indicative ... New Jersey yielded the continent's first recorded dinosaur fossil, a thigh bone, in 1787, as well as the first dinosaur ...

New fossils of the first land animals reveal that ... Alongside the tracks, fossilised mud cracks and impressions from rain drops proved the mud was dry as they scampered past.

Meldola and myself drew attention to the possible deceptions which might arise from a preservation of such patterns as fossils ... mud. It was obvious that the sand would soon fill in the frost ...

Workmen blasting bedrock while building a school near the city of Ganzhou unearthed a beautifully preserved fossil of the roughly 6.5-foot-long dinosaur, nicknamed the "Mud Dragon," still in that ...

And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a recent vertebrae fossil find belonged to “about as big” a mosasaur specimen as one could get.