Uncovering these fossils is a time-consuming and delicate process that involves peeling back layers of rock and piecing together fragments. The worm fossils were found in a fossil bed at Nilpena ...

One micrometre is just one thousandth of a millimetre. Dr Russell Garwood, from Manchester's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: ‘This is an especially exciting find due to the age of ...

Dwellings and structures: Some marine worms secrete calcareous tubes in which they live. The fossil is not of the organism ... of concretions (a nodule of well-cemented sediment in the middle of a ...

True to their names, these worm-mollusks are behind something ... Paleontologists can use CT scans to see parts of fossils still hidden in rock, essentially taking thousands of X-rays of the ...

Dinosaur footprints and worm burrows are examples of trace fossils, as are coprolites (fossilized dung or feces). In the kits, the coprolite (1), theropod track (17), and synapsid track (18) are trace ...

An international team of scientists, including from the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and the Natural History Museum, have discovered that a well-preserved, fossilized worm dating from 518 ...