With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...
Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...
Unlike body fossils, tracks give us a glimpse into a moment in the ... including the 18m-long sauropod Cetiosaurus. In 1997, extensive trackways were discovered in Ardley Quarry, north Oxfordshire, ...
Termination trackways, where a dinosaur fossil is associated with its final steps, are exceptionally rare. Instead, ichnologists are generally able to identify which dinosaur group made a track using ...
So tracks give us a whole different set of information that you can't get from the bone fossil record." Some of the trackways extend 150m and may go even further into the quarry One area of the ...
Trace fossils can also be a record of a prehistoric activity, such as footprints and trackways or burrows. Subfossils are fossils in the making. They’re remains that have begun the process of ...
News that an 11-year old girl, Ruby Reynolds, found an important fossil proves that anyone can make historic discoveries if ...