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Footprints
Are preserved animal tracks index fossils?
We sometimes think of fossils as preserved parts of an animal, like bones, but tracks and footprints are examples of something called a trace fossil. ...
How could you tell from looking at footprints that an animal walked upright?
How do we know that a afarensis walked upright?How can footprints show whether an animal was walking or running?What do footprints reveal about the o...
When these animals made there prints was the soil moist or dry?
It was moist because footprints are made using wet material or something that can make a mold. How did the prints become trace fossils? The got covere...
What can a footprint tell you about the animal that made it?
This is because footprints are a record of the living, moving animal, while the skeleton is simply the remains of its dead body. The footprints of any...