A dark imprint of the animal's body runs along the inside of the fossil, making it a particularly dramatic record. But now, scientists have worked out that the imprint, long thought to be ...

It's not uncommon to find the fossil imprints of seashells in the rocks lining streambeds here in upstate New York. Today ...

Fossils are formed when animal or plant remains are trapped between layers of rock. When the rock is broken open, an imprint is revealed. Since the 1940's researchers have used radiocarbon (Carbon ...

Palaeontologists first discovered the imprint of the theropod dinosaur in a tidal rock platform in Flat Rocks, Victoria in 2006. The area is a famous dinosaur fossil area where thousands of fossil ...