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.

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 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, ...

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

The authors found flawlessly preserved nannoplankton imprint fossils throughout several inferred biocalcification crises during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, ...

His hunt for fossils was not going according to plan. ... Knecht found an imprint that had been made by a small flying insect, much like a modern mayfly, around 310 million years ago.

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 .

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.

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 ...

A stunning imprint of a hatchling dinosaur found by a local fossil enthusiast is helping to fill a missing chapter of pre-history. For 150 years, paleontologists have found scattered evidence of ...

Two Slovak scientists found new imprints left by dinosaurs in the High Tatras, casts of footprints preserved hundred million years. “Mr Milan Sýkora discovered the first area with dinosaur imprints in ...