#trace fossils

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Preserving Trace Fossils: Challenges of Protecting Fossilized...

Every footprint tells a story — and when that footprint is over 100 million years old, it becomes a priceless piece of Earth’s history. Foss

Preserving Trace Fossils: Challenges of Protecting Fossilized Dinosaur Tracks in Modern Landscapes

Every footprint tells a story — and when that footprint is over 100 million years old, it becomes a priceless piece of Earth’s history. Fossilized dinosaur tracks are among the most fascinating forms of evidence left behind by prehistoric creatures. Unlike skeletal dinosaur fossils, which tell us what dinosaurs looked like, trackways reveal how they moved, hunted, and interacted with their environment.

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Terror Birds Had Raptor Talons And These Fossil Footprints Prove It!

Once the dinosaurs went extinct in the fiery blaze of the KPG impact, their avian cousins and descendants survived and thrived, with many becoming large predatory animals that specialized in holding down and tearing apart reptiles, birds, and mammals alike. One of the most iconic groups of these extinct birds of prey are the terror birds. One important aspect to their biology has just been confirmed thanks to a fossil trackway from Argentina.

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Dinosaur trackways at Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado

August 2021

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Meditative Week of Poetry: Claire Scott

“…the sign left in the rock record by the impress of life rather than life itself” –  Underland by Robert Macfarlane

A dinosaur footprint, eggshells, nests, tooth marks, tracks, trails all point to life that once was but left long ago, leaving a pale echo

The heel bruised steps to your writing room the dent in the cushion on your reading chair The Splendid and the Vile open to page 327 a scrabble of books scattered on the floor the tube of Tom’s squeezed from the middle your boots and sneakers a-jumble in the hall the memory of your hands on my body the stick and sweat, the spike of shiver I touch the chair, the books, the toothpaste run fingers over my breasts

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dinosaur tracks 

by C Z

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浅い砂地の海の地層に残った生きものの巣穴の化石　前期更新世（約100万年前）　長岡市

An outcrop section of fossil burrows (trace fossils), Ophiomorpha isp., preserved in shallow marine sandstone beds.  Early Pleistocene.  Scale increment 1 cm.

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“The outback Queensland town of Winton is living up to its reputation as a palaeontologist's paradise with another ground breaking prehistoric discovery. 

Footprints from a number of dinosaurs have been preserved in a muddy creek bed for 95 million years. Now they are being unearthed by a dedicated team. 

Palaeontologist Dr Stephen Poropat, who's been working at the groundbreaking site since last year, said he's never seen anything like this before. 

"We're dealing with front footprints that are about half-a-metre wide, back footprints about a metre long," he said.

"They are completely distinctive from all the rest of the Sauropod footprints that have been found anywhere else in the world."

Sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores, known for their huge size and long necks.”