Tag Archives: Footprints

Water pulls life together. Shorelines turn into busy corridors where birds, hoofed mammals, and different species of human ancestors, or hominins, crossed paths. At Lake Turkana in northern Kenya about 1.5 million years ago, a short-lived window of wet silt captured that traffic with unusual clarity. Scientists have studied those impressions and found a tight, almost real-time record …

A view of the Neanderthal trackway discovered at Monte Clérigo beach in Portugal, with two study authors. Image credits: Carlos Neto de Carvalho. The footprint is ghostly but unmistakable: the shallow impression of a toddler’s foot, just 11 centimeters long, pressed into damp sand. The heel is faint, the arch not yet formed — a sign of a very young …

Archaeologists have discovered two Neanderthals tracksites in the southwestern most region of Europe: at Monte Clérigo, dated to 78,000 years ago, trackways of three individuals demonstrate how Neanderthals navigated dune landscapes; these behaviors suggest route planning, with dune systems serving as advantageous settings for ambush hunting or stalking prey; a single footprint at the site of Praia do Telheiro sustains …

AUSTIN, Texas — When July’s historic floods ripped through Central Texas, they didn’t just sweep away homes and trees. Along Sandy Creek, volunteers spotted something extraordinary emerging from the mud: a trail of footprints pressed into stone that were 115 million years old. “The dinosaur tracks at Sandy Creek were uncovered during debris removal after the floods,” explained Matthew Brown, …

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly detected the auroras of Jupiter’s moon Callisto. This discovery completes the set of auroral signatures we have from all four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Like Earth, Jupiter experiences brilliant auroras around its poles — but something funky happens …

In a remarkable discovery following recent flooding, ancient dinosaur footprints that had been hidden beneath layers of Texas soil for millions of years were revealed. According to a report from ABC News, the tracks were uncovered in Northwest Travis County, Texas, after floodwaters swept away sediment and brush, bringing the prints to light. This unprecedented find allows paleontologists to gain …

Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters. “It’s one of those sort of bittersweet things about our job, is that it’s the cataclysmic events that often …

545-Million-Year-Old Footprints Rewrite the Origin Story of Complex Life  SciTechDaily Source link

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular nightclub back in the long-ago Cretaceous era. In those times, male dinosaurs, some similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, traveled to this once long-ago plain of tidal mud to preen and bust dance moves — even doing what the researchers described as a prehistoric moonwalk …

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have uncovered 9,000-year-old rock art that offers new insights into the relationship between ancient humans and dinosaurs. These petroglyphs, etched into rocks in Serrote do Letreiro, an agricultural site in Paraíba, Brazil, are positioned near dinosaur footprints believed to date back to the Cretaceous Period, approximately 66 million years ago. A Significant Discovery The petroglyphs, …