Trackways

Article 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... Article First Impressions Two hundred years ago, farm boy Pliny Moody was plowing a Massachusetts field. Uncovering some mysterious fossil tracks, the 14-year-old... Article 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... Article Who Was That Dinosaur? In detective stories, footprints often identify a suspect. For dinosaur experts, life is more complicated. Prints record skin, flesh... Article Big Foot In general, the bigger the animal, the less its footprint resembles the bony structure of its foot. The reason? Large animals need... Article 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... Article 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...