Footprints uncovered on school foyer boulder date back 200 million years
May 7, 2025 7:21 AM Subscribe
Footprints uncovered on school foyer boulder date back 200 million years.
Scientists say the discovery of 66 footprints on a rock at a Queensland high school are a huge breakthrough in understanding early Jurassic dinosaurs.
This is cool. That is quite a passel of dinos that tromped through the mud.
I am reminded that one of the senior pranks when I was a freshman was that footprints were left on the ceilings of the foyer, hallways, and in several classrooms at my PA high school. That was in 1971, so I'm pretty sure they're almost fossils
posted by BlueHorse at 8:03 AM on May 7 [2 favorites]
I am reminded that one of the senior pranks when I was a freshman was that footprints were left on the ceilings of the foyer, hallways, and in several classrooms at my PA high school. That was in 1971, so I'm pretty sure they're almost fossils
posted by BlueHorse at 8:03 AM on May 7 [2 favorites]
I needed this 200-million old news today!
That said: I did misread the first line and thought that they had just found 200,000 year old human footprints in Australia, which would have been equally fascinating (though even more surprising) news. Then I read again and realized that it was million, not thousand - and not even our oldest estimates for the first hominins out of Africa go back that far.
Unless someone has been taking tours in the Tardis, of course.
posted by jb at 12:03 PM on May 7
That said: I did misread the first line and thought that they had just found 200,000 year old human footprints in Australia, which would have been equally fascinating (though even more surprising) news. Then I read again and realized that it was million, not thousand - and not even our oldest estimates for the first hominins out of Africa go back that far.
Unless someone has been taking tours in the Tardis, of course.
posted by jb at 12:03 PM on May 7
I'm impressed. Australia's school system is really old. This is in the cement they poured, right?
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 1:08 PM on May 7
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 1:08 PM on May 7
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