Move over Tiktaalik, a new semi-terrestrial fish just dropped.
#Devonian #TraceFossils #Paleontology
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#Devonian #TraceFossils #Paleontology
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
Fossilized fish trails reveal earliest steps out of water
Possible lungfish tracks could push back animal migration onto land by 10 million years
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Move over Tiktaalik, a new semi-terrestrial fish just dropped.
#Devonian #TraceFossils #Paleontology
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
#Devonian #TraceFossils #Paleontology
New at @science.org 🏺🧪
Now ya see, now ya don't! #FossilFriday fun w/#TraceFossils #Fossils. How bout that Crabby Appleton?!
Happy #FossilFriday! Finding fossil tracks in the field can be a challenge without good lighting. MOR 1082, the fossil tracks of a Cretaceous horseshoe crab, stand out when the light is right.
July 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Now ya see, now ya don't! #FossilFriday fun w/#TraceFossils #Fossils. How bout that Crabby Appleton?!
Super late #FossilFriday #CretaceousCrossroads exhibit! Now you don't see it, now you do! #ichnology, #tracefossils #paleontology 75 million year old crab tracks from the Two Medicine Formation!
Happy #FossilFriday! Finding fossil tracks in the field can be a challenge without good lighting. MOR 1082, the fossil tracks of a Cretaceous horseshoe crab, stand out when the light is right.
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Super late #FossilFriday #CretaceousCrossroads exhibit! Now you don't see it, now you do! #ichnology, #tracefossils #paleontology 75 million year old crab tracks from the Two Medicine Formation!
One of the things I searched for when my father was alive was dinosaur footprints on the ridgetop that had the pothole and fossilized driftwood. A year after my father had passed away, I went back and found what looks like footprints in the rock. #photography #geology #ancientrivers #tracefossils
August 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
One of the things I searched for when my father was alive was dinosaur footprints on the ridgetop that had the pothole and fossilized driftwood. A year after my father had passed away, I went back and found what looks like footprints in the rock. #photography #geology #ancientrivers #tracefossils
"Thousands of years ago in what is now the Dominican Republic, there was a cave full of bones. And those bones were full of bees.
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows."
#Bees #Fossils #Bones #TraceFossils #Burrows
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows."
#Bees #Fossils #Bones #TraceFossils #Burrows
Ancient Bones Hid a Buzzing Secret
Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind discovery
www.scientificamerican.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Thousands of years ago in what is now the Dominican Republic, there was a cave full of bones. And those bones were full of bees.
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows."
#Bees #Fossils #Bones #TraceFossils #Burrows
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows."
#Bees #Fossils #Bones #TraceFossils #Burrows
Paleontologists just found Earth’s oldest “butthole” impression. The 299-million-year-old imprint was planted by a lizardlike reptile cooling off in some mud.
Sometimes life as a science journalist takes you strange places.
#Paleontology #TraceFossils
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Sometimes life as a science journalist takes you strange places.
#Paleontology #TraceFossils
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New at @sciam.bsky.social
This may be the oldest ‘butthole’ imprint on Earth
Fossils show exceptionally rare evidence of a cloacal vent—the slit that most vertebrates use to excrete, have sex and lay egg—which could shed light on the evolution of the orifice
www.scientificamerican.com
March 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Paleontologists just found Earth’s oldest “butthole” impression. The 299-million-year-old imprint was planted by a lizardlike reptile cooling off in some mud.
Sometimes life as a science journalist takes you strange places.
#Paleontology #TraceFossils
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New at @sciam.bsky.social
Sometimes life as a science journalist takes you strange places.
#Paleontology #TraceFossils
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New at @sciam.bsky.social
#FossilFriday #TraceFossils #Spurenfossilien fossile Fussspuren zeigen, wie T rex in eine Herde Hadrosaurier preschte
Footprint fossils are important because they reveal the size of the animals that made them, their movement, and animal behavior. The 44,000 pounds of footprints collected at this site in Wyoming tell the story of tyrannosaurs ambushing a herd of hadrosaurs as they approached the river to drink.
March 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#FossilFriday #TraceFossils #Spurenfossilien fossile Fussspuren zeigen, wie T rex in eine Herde Hadrosaurier preschte
You know that part of the dinosaur movies where they flee in terror from volcanoes and asteroids. Yeah, some of that seems to have occurred in #NewMexico (and #Arizona).
#paleontology #fossils #tracefossils #history #roadtrip #daytrip
#paleontology #fossils #tracefossils #history #roadtrip #daytrip
Clayton Lake State Park Dinosaur Tracksite, Clayton, NM
In the northwest corner of New Mexico, not far from where the border meets Colorado, Texas, and Oklahoma, sits a state park full of interesting dinosaur tracks. While relatively “off the bea…
allosaurusroar.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
You know that part of the dinosaur movies where they flee in terror from volcanoes and asteroids. Yeah, some of that seems to have occurred in #NewMexico (and #Arizona).
#paleontology #fossils #tracefossils #history #roadtrip #daytrip
#paleontology #fossils #tracefossils #history #roadtrip #daytrip
Tolkiens alveskrift, eller løkkeskrift på berget? Nei, dette er sporfossiler fra et takskiferbrudd i Stjørdals dype skoger! Dette tror jeg er Gordia isp blant annet, spor-lageren var kanskje en fra rekka priapulide (penisormer) som beita på bunnen av Stjørdalshavet mot slutten av perioden ordovicium
June 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Tolkiens alveskrift, eller løkkeskrift på berget? Nei, dette er sporfossiler fra et takskiferbrudd i Stjørdals dype skoger! Dette tror jeg er Gordia isp blant annet, spor-lageren var kanskje en fra rekka priapulide (penisormer) som beita på bunnen av Stjørdalshavet mot slutten av perioden ordovicium
#Tracefossils record interactions btwn ancient organisms & their surroundings, often in the form of tracks, trails & burrows in/on sediment, but the trace maker is seldom preserved. Phycodes is a complex feeding burrow system excavated in an #Ordovician (~450 MYA) seabed. #Ontario 🇨🇦 #FossilFriday
April 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#Tracefossils record interactions btwn ancient organisms & their surroundings, often in the form of tracks, trails & burrows in/on sediment, but the trace maker is seldom preserved. Phycodes is a complex feeding burrow system excavated in an #Ordovician (~450 MYA) seabed. #Ontario 🇨🇦 #FossilFriday
"Two hundred and ninety million years ago, in a mountain valley within the central region of the supercontinent Pangaea, an apex predator snapped up at least three other animals and sometime later puked up the bones."
#Fossils #TraceFossils #Palaeontology
#Fossils #TraceFossils #Palaeontology
Fossilized vomit reveals 290-million-year-old predator’s diet
The regurgitated material from before the time of dinosaurs provides a rare window into the feeding habits of a prehistoric hunter.
www.sciencenews.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
"Two hundred and ninety million years ago, in a mountain valley within the central region of the supercontinent Pangaea, an apex predator snapped up at least three other animals and sometime later puked up the bones."
#Fossils #TraceFossils #Palaeontology
#Fossils #TraceFossils #Palaeontology
World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast
#AncientHumans #TraceFossils #science
theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...
#AncientHumans #TraceFossils #science
theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...
World’s oldest ‘Homo sapiens’ footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast
This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
theconversation.com
August 21, 2024 at 11:06 PM
World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast
#AncientHumans #TraceFossils #science
theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...
#AncientHumans #TraceFossils #science
theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...
🦴🦖Trace Fossils – Evidence of Life with No Bones
Join Professor Maurice Tucker, Visiting Professor in the Earth Sciences Dept #UniofBristol as he explores incredible fossils and the stories they tell.
🌟 Plus Late Exhibition Opening!
www.brlsi.org/whatso...
#TraceFossils
Join Professor Maurice Tucker, Visiting Professor in the Earth Sciences Dept #UniofBristol as he explores incredible fossils and the stories they tell.
🌟 Plus Late Exhibition Opening!
www.brlsi.org/whatso...
#TraceFossils
September 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🦴🦖Trace Fossils – Evidence of Life with No Bones
Join Professor Maurice Tucker, Visiting Professor in the Earth Sciences Dept #UniofBristol as he explores incredible fossils and the stories they tell.
🌟 Plus Late Exhibition Opening!
www.brlsi.org/whatso...
#TraceFossils
Join Professor Maurice Tucker, Visiting Professor in the Earth Sciences Dept #UniofBristol as he explores incredible fossils and the stories they tell.
🌟 Plus Late Exhibition Opening!
www.brlsi.org/whatso...
#TraceFossils