66 Dinosaur Footprints Discovered on Rock Gifted to an Australian High School Decades Ago
A rock slab displayed at Biloela State High School contains some of the most densely packed dinosaur footprints ever discovered in Australia.
Students Walked Past This Rock for 20 Years. It Turned Out to Host 66 Dinosaur Footprints From the Jurassic Period
For two decades, students walked past an unassuming beige rock on their way to and from class—and occasionally stuck wads of used chewing gum on it. Now, paleontologists have discovered the slab is covered in 200-million-year-old dinosaur tracks,
A High School’s Rock Has One Of Australia’s Richest Dinosaur Footprint Collections
A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a densely packed set of prints sitting in the foyer of the local high school, unbeknown to many students.
Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in rock at Australian school
Palaeontologists have discovered 66 three-toed dinosaur footprints in a slab of rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland
Scientists uncover 66 dinosaur footprints on school rock slab in Queensland
Analyzing the size of the footprints, researchers estimate that the dinosaurs had hip heights between 20 and 76 centimeters and were walking at speeds between 2 and 6 kilometers per hour. The environment at the time was likely a silty surface under a shallow layer of water, providing ideal conditions for preserving footprints.
School’s Jurassic footprints rock dinosaur hunter
A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside a Queensland school.
Dinosaur footprints unknowingly displayed in a high school for 20 years
A large boulder used as decoration in a rural Australian high school’s foyer is actually covered in dinosaur footprints —it just took around 20 years for anyone to notice. After examining the ancient rock,
This High School Rock Is Teeming With Dinosaur Footprints—but No One Noticed for Decades
A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
‘Fooluru’: The other giant rock that’s been duping tourists for years
Many celebrate too early after setting eyes on this outback monolith, which is actually bigger – though not as spectacular – ...
Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World’s Oldest by Over a Billion Years
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...
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Scientists discover Earth's oldest impact crater in Australia
This week, geologists announced they discovered the world's oldest known impact crater. It's in Western Australia's ancient ...
World’s oldest-known meteor crater discovered in Australia is 3.5BILLION years old and was once 60miles wide
THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.