Trackways
Part of the Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries exhibition.
Perhaps more than any other kind of fossil, footprints evoke the walking, running, living and breathing animals of the past.
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Track Record
Tracks are dynamic evidence, the record in stone of a moment that passed into history as long as 200 million years ago. Perhaps more...
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First Impressions
Two hundred years ago, farm boy Pliny Moody was plowing a Massachusetts field. Uncovering some mysterious fossil tracks, the 14-year-old...
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A Mesozoic Moment
Over the space of a few minutes, on a single day 100 million years ago, about two dozen long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs crossed...
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Who Was That Dinosaur?
In detective stories, footprints often identify a suspect. For dinosaur experts, life is more complicated. Prints record skin, flesh...
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Big Foot
In general, the bigger the animal, the less its footprint resembles the bony structure of its foot. The reason? Large animals need...
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When Less Is More
Sometimes tracks are readable... and sometimes they're not. The texture of the ground surface and the number of animals that passed...
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Lonely at the Top?
This is the only known footprint of the huge meat-eater Tyrannosaurus rex. Its one-of-a-kind status may be a clue to the ecology...