A trace fossil, also ichnofossil ( /ˈɪknoʊfɒsɪl/; from Greek: ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity but not the preserved remains of the plant or animal itself. Trace ...

Trace fossils are ... that probably left no other fossil evidence of its existence. We can infer that the organism was a deposit feeder - ingesting sediment like an earthworm - and that it was ...

Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

These individuals—called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the “hobbits” after J.R.R. Tolkien’s small Middle-earth ... newly ...

Fossilised shells are also body fossils. Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints, imprints of their skin or feathers, and poo - ...

This predates many well-known fossil sites from the Coal Age. Researchers uncovered body and trace fossils of over 130 different species, including early reptiles, amphibians, arachnids ...

When an organism dies and is quickly covered by layers of mud, sand or silt, it has the potential to become a fossil. Rather than rotting away, some parts of its body are replaced by minerals. In some ...

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