Here’s how it works. Study authors Alison Burns and Jamie Woodward inspect 8,500-year-old animal and human footprints in one of the mesolithic mud beds in England.(Image credit: Victoria Gill/BBC) ...

The animal was around 2 ½ feet long (80 cm) and its feet has long fingers and claws, which are visible in newly discovered fossil footprints. Marcin Ambrozik / Prof. Per Erik Ahlberg via AP ...

This is the first evidence of animal footprints from the time before Cambrian explosion — the evolutionary event that marked a major surge in Earth’s diversity.

THE earliest known footprints left by an animal on Earth, dating back some 541 million years, have been uncovered in China but it’s baffled scientists. less than 2 min read June 7, 2018 - 9:46AM AFP ...

The footprints record a series of events in one day, with a reptile running quickly across the ground. Scientists estimate the animal that made the footprints was about 80 centimeters long and may ...