Fossil Tracks News Today

The trace was probably made between 93,000 and 83,000 years ago, almost certainly by a puff adder.

Trackway findings support the notion of southern Africa being one region where human cognitive and practical ability developed a very long time ago.

Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.

Ammoglyphs – ancient ‘sand art’ – are a relatively new find.

The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.

Fossil footprints are a treasure chest of information.

Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.

There is something near-miraculous in the concept of tiny creatures, weighing just grams, making tracks and traces so long ago, that are now evident in rock.

Human tracks registered in aeolianites - cemented dune surfaces - are rare at a global level.