Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

What is a footprint tunnel? A footprint tunnel is a small structure you place outdoors that records the tracks of small animals, using animal-friendly ink and a small amount of bait. By working out ...

Claudia Steffensen made a captivating discovery in the Italian Alps: a tropical ecosystem dating back 280 million years, made up of relics of the past such as plant fossils, raindrop tracks and ...

While working alongside the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe, they saw how the indigenous trackers were able to deduce an enormous amount of information about wildlife from animals’ footprints ...

"But a skeleton is a record of the animal once it's died. Footprints are quite different in that they are snapshots into the life of an animal. So when you walk on this surface in Oxford ...