Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Cretaceous equivalent of tanks left some exceptional fossils, but surprisingly we have not found their footprints until now.

Around 1.5 million years ago, four walkers traversed the muddy shore of a lake, leaving footprints. If they did not cross paths, they would have missed each other narrowly — probably by hours if ...

like beach sand, that left a layer on the landscape. Then a light rain fell onto the ash to create something like wet cement -- an ideal material for trapping footprints. Birds and mammals left a ...

Both types of dinosaurs would have had to have enough weight to leave behind such footprints, sinking through the sand to the hardened mud below, and that could last until this day. Blakesley ...

A major storm might not necessarily be good news, but for a group of researchers in New Zealand, bad weather has uncovered a ...

A single boulder at a regional school in central Queensland was hiding 66 fossilized footprints in plain sight. Researchers that 47 individual dinosaurs made marks on the boulder, which originally ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

“Dinosaur footprints have been reported from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone of the Callide Basin, Queensland, for over three decades, yet only a single track has been described until ...

The rock contains two footprints left by a dinosaur walking on two legs, likely measuring around 31 inches in length, he said on the university’s website. The third specimen contains a single ...

It is one of the most densely concentrated dinosaur tracks found in the country. Dozens of dinosaur footprints embedded in a boulder were found hiding in plain sight at a school in Australia ...