Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

We know them in death. We know how they died, some of what they ate, how they grew, where they may have roamed, and even if they suffered from disease or injury. Preserved bones can tell us a lot, but ...

Their feet left copious traces in muddy Permian floodplains, leaving tracks scattered across ancient sediments. But in one slab of such trackways, scientists uncovered something more: the trace of an ...

Trace fossils, the preserved records of biological activity, provide a unique window into the interactions between ancient organisms and their sedimentary settings. By recording behaviours such as ...

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