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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Similar tracks elsewhere largely are found in coal beds, not sand dunes, he said. “You could always learn more, and we certainly would like to find more tracks of those same animals,” he said.

Earliest animal footprints ever show creatures walked the earth 570 million years ago By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 04:56 EDT, 7 October 2008 ...

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 ...