Initially discovered in 1988, the fossil sat in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils for decades, ... A larger imprint allowed researchers to confirm the species to which it belonged.

The fossil imprints, while lacking any bones of the animals, actually contain rare information that bones cannot, said Lucas. Without the imprints of the webbed four-toed feet, ...

Fossil rain suggests the atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago boasted a hydrocarbon haze. Skip to main content. ... What was clearly preserved, however, are the fossil imprints of ancient rain.

The fossils from Antarctica include the imprints of Triassic plants. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Other fossils document the traces of Antarctica’s Triassic environment, ...

Cracking these concretions reveals the imprints of soft-bodied animals that resemble bulge-eyed aliens. In the 1950s, a local collector named Francis Tully discovered the imprint of a torpedo ...

The 506 million-year-old fossil is an imprint of a creature that had three eyes, a jaw lined with teeth, sharp claws and abdominal segments lined with gills.

An Indigenous rights lawyer by trade, Valdron has been writing genre fiction and non-fiction for decades.

The wader, Daniel Holm, is from a Morris, Ill., family that has hunted and sold Mazon Creek fossils for 60 years. Wittry, a self-trained amateur paleontologist, has been at it for just as long ...

According to results from the online survey, “travelers are heading to under-the-radar coastal escapes where parking is easy, ...

The fossil dates back to around 240 million years old, the National Museums of Scotland announced, and includes the animal’s imprint curled up with its long neck wrapped in a circle .

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.