Drones are used to detect lichen on dinosaur bones, potentially speeding up fossil discoveries. Two lichen species prefer dinosaur bones over rock, aiding paleontologists in locating new fossil areas in western Canada.
A 100-million-year-old amber fossil reveals a fungus-infected ant pupa, suggesting zombie fungi have been contaminating ants for twice as long as previously thought. Fungus infected insects.
Dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic period (168-166 million years ago) have been discovered on the Isle of Skye. The tracks reveal theropods and sauropods dinosaurs in a shallow lagoon.
