New Dinosaur Footprints Show Sauropods Frolicked In Shallow Water
Dinosaurs in Scotland An artist's impression of what the Scottish island of Skye might have looked like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Jon Hoad/University of Edinburgh Dinosaurs ruled the world for over 180 million years, spreading across the oceans and continents. After all that time, it stands to reason that they left a few things behind. We've all seen fossils in books and museums, but dinosaurs left behind far more than just their bones. They also left their footprints. Even though we generally think of footprints as ephemeral, in the right conditions, footprints can be preserved for an extraordinarily long time, even millions of years. Preserved footprints give paleontologists details that fossils alone can't. By looking at the sediments or rocks where the footprints are...