A dark imprint of the animal's body runs along the inside of the fossil, making it a particularly dramatic record. But now, scientists have worked out that the imprint, long thought to be ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to ...

“After many days of digging, one team member found a stone with a particular imprint on it, and it was a fossil tadpole!” Although adult frog fossils are difficult to find, tadpoles are even harde ...

Young Lily from Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan, found an impressive fossil footprint in January. It was so good, the 200 million-year-old imprint is now on display at the National Museum Cardiff.

Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints, imprints of their skin or feathers, and poo - called coprolites. Do all living things ...

Palaeontologists first discovered the imprint of the theropod dinosaur in a tidal rock platform in Flat Rocks, Victoria in 2006. The area is a famous dinosaur fossil area where thousands of fossil ...