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.

Stunningly preserved fossils of reptilian footprints and underbellies discovered last year in the Italian Alps have helped ...

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 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 .

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

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.

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old ... “However, after many days of digging, one team member found a stone with a particular imprint on it – a fossil tadpole. ...

Mould and cast fossils. Sometimes ground water dissolves the buried bone or shell, leaving behind a bone- or shell-shaped hole or imprint in the sediment. This is a natural mould. If water rich in ...

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 ...

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.