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World’s oldest Homo sapiens footprint identified on South Africa’s Cape south coast
#AncientHumans #TraceFossils #science

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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
meertext.bsky.social
#FossilFriday #TraceFossils #Spurenfossilien fossile Fussspuren zeigen, wie T rex in eine Herde Hadrosaurier preschte
smmnh.bsky.social Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · Mar 14
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.
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. 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
tmitchellbrown.bsky.social
Move over Tiktaalik, a new semi-terrestrial fish just dropped.

#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
brlsi.bsky.social
🦴🦖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!
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September 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
newmexiconomad.com
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
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
museumguyscott.bsky.social
Now ya see, now ya don't! #FossilFriday fun w/#TraceFossils #Fossils. How bout that Crabby Appleton?!
museumoftherockies.bsky.social Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social · Jul 18
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
art-h-ropod.bsky.social
#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
A slab of dark grey rock, about 30 cm x 40 cm, bearing a roughly fan-shaped bundle of bifurcating, flattened tubular structures that stand in low relief. Each individual "tube" is about 1 cm in width and marks a sediment-filled tunnel excavated within the soft lime muds and silts on a shallow marine sea bed. The whole array is a the result of systematic "mining" of the sea floor sediment for organic detritus and is the work of a single small burrowing invertebrate animal whose precise identity is unknown.
April 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM