Science news articles about 'trace fossils'

... of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, researchers report the first evidence that trace fossils interpreted by some as the tracks of ancient bilaterians could have instead been made by giant ...

... International Congress on Ichnology, in Krakow, Poland last month. The pair will present other trace fossils from the site, including tracks of amphibians and precursors to reptiles, at the Annual ...

... in western Alberta, northeast British Columbia, and the barren landscapes of the Canadian Arctic. Trace fossils preserve the activity of organisms and can be burrows or other actions created by the ...

... " said Adam Summers, program director in NSF's Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems. "Trace fossils were once our main window into the behavior of long-vanished organisms," said Summers. ...

... (ICP) and the University of Manchester have once again begun to work on documenting dinosaur trace fossils in the Iberian Peninsula. For two weeks, the team formed by palaeontologists from the two ...

... Last period of global warming The Victoria fossils are about 110 million years old, around ... environments." An eye for subtle clues A specialist in trace fossils – including tracks, scat and burrows ...

... crayfish. To establish their findings, the researchers examined trace fossils, or the burrows, nests, tracks, trails ... d compare like trace fossils from rocks that occurred before the PETM event, within ...

... to settle the evolutionary age of Osedax might examine fossil bones from Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Oligocene cetaceans to find possible trace fossils left by Osedax roots, suggest the ...