Claudia Steffensen made a captivating discovery in the Italian Alps: a tropical ecosystem dating back 280 million years, made ...

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

"The really lovely thing about a dinosaur footprint, particularly if you have a trackway, is that it is a snapshot in the ...

Giant tracks discovered underground have offered an "extraordinary window" into the lives of the giants that roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

Have you ever wondered what wildlife wanders through your garden when you're not watching? Footprint tunnels are a great way to discover which small animals are out and about, and it's easy to make ...

Nicholls said. The sets of sauropod footprints are also different sizes, showing that the animals might have moved in a herd with juveniles or traveled alongside smaller herbivores. The ...

The footprints are fossilized traces of ancient ... which could provide information about the animals that made the tracks and potential interactions between the animals. “The preservation ...

"It's about 8,200 years old," says Dr Alison Burns, pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach. It is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient ...

A team of archaeologists and geographers from The University of Manchester have discovered that hundreds of ancient animal and human footprints found on a beach in Merseyside record a major decline in ...

photo by ondrejprosicky An emerging field with great potential to monitor populations while also addressing some of the aforementioned challenges is the analysis of genetic material (DNA) shed by ...