A paleontologist studied the 200-million-year-old prints that had been hiding in plain sight, then discovered even more ...

They had long legs, chunky bodies, short arms and a small head with a beak ... the entrance of a parking lot. The rock contains two footprints left by a dinosaur walking on two legs, likely ...

During the early Jurassic period around 200 million years ago, Earth’s animals finally rebounded from one of the worst extinction events in the planet’s history. While paleontologists in ...

Now, a team of paleontologists studying the rock’s surface has found 66 fossilized footprints from 47 individual dinosaurs belonging to the ichnospecies Anomoepus scambus. Ichnospecies are ...

After careful examination, Anthony Romilio, a paleontologist from the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, and colleagues determined the rock was covered with 66 footprints from 47 ...

A slab of 200-million-year-old rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland, Australia, contains 66 footprints from 47 individual dinosaurs. The rock was gifted to Biloela ...

After examining the ancient rock, paleontologists at the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab believe the stone features one of the country’s highest concentrations of fossilized footprints.

The rock sat there until researchers started asking for any dinosaur fossils discovered in the area. “Some of the teachers thought this was a replica rather than the real thing,” Dr Romilio said.