This High School Rock Is Teeming With Dinosaur Footprints—but No One Noticed for Decades
A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.
Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in rock at Australian school
Palaeontologists have discovered 66 three-toed dinosaur footprints in a slab of rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland
Unnoticed for decades, dinosaur footprints at Australian school reveal ancient secrets
A trove of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday.
Students Walked Past This Rock for 20 Years. It Turned Out to Host 66 Dinosaur Footprints From the Jurassic Period
For two decades, students walked past an unassuming beige rock on their way to and from class—and occasionally stuck wads of used chewing gum on it. Now, paleontologists have discovered the slab is covered in 200-million-year-old dinosaur tracks,
66 Dinosaur Footprints Discovered on Rock Gifted to an Australian High School Decades Ago
A rock slab displayed at Biloela State High School contains some of the most densely packed dinosaur footprints ever discovered in Australia.
A High School’s Rock Has One Of Australia’s Richest Dinosaur Footprint Collections
A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a densely packed set of prints sitting in the foyer of the local high school, unbeknown to many students.
Scientists uncover 66 dinosaur footprints on school rock slab in Queensland
On Wednesday, scientists unveiled the discovery of fossilized dinosaur footprints on a rock slab that had been on display for 20 years at Biloela State High School in Queensland, Australia. The slab contains one of the strongest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever observed in Australia,
Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa's Western Cape
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Dinosaur footprints: how do they form and what can they tell us?
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How are dinosaur fossils formed?
Fossilised claw of Baryonyx, another British dinosaur. Claws, like fossil skulls and skeletons, are body fossils. Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur ...
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Where did dinosaurs originate? Experts trace their beginnings to ancient equatorial hotspots
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For 20 years, this school had no idea there was a dinosaur fossil right outside
Students at a school in Australia studied next to a boulder without realizing it was a fossil of 66 footprints from 47 dinosaurs from 200 million years ago.