#trackway

[thesilicontribesman]

Two Sections Of The Upton Ancient Trackway, Found Near Magor Pill, 2400 Years Old, Newport Museum and Galleries, Wales

[jameslang209]

This is a centipede track. Middle or Late Triassic. 240-220 mya. I spotted this at my neighbor’s property about half mile away and he let me drag it home.

[persistentrain]

[ribzinc]

This ^ trackway was allegedly discovered by an 11 year old who thought he'd found dino footprints while tubing. A paleontologist was notified and sure as shit the kid was right!

Believe kids! What's the worst that can happen? You validate them? Go on an adventure?

A dinosaur obsessed 12 year old studied fossils and found a 69 million year old hadrosaur skeleton embedded in rock while hiking. A fisherman in Australia noticed tiny shrimp in his net that looked slightly different from the others and he sent a few specimens to biologists for testing. Turned out to be a never before described species, going unnoticed in a popular lake. I posted a pic ~here on tumblr~ of a weird parasite on a dead fish and a parasitologist found it and asked to report it as the species has never been seen in my area before.

There is so, so much out there we literally don’t even know. And the best way to find that stuff out is to be intensely curious about everything you see. You might not discover a new species but you absolutely will gain a deeper appreciation for the world around you.

[foundways]

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 36: Prehistory (Iteration Unknown)

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[originalleftist]

Fossil Theropod Dinosaur Footprint (Possibly Elaphrosaurus) From Beit Zayit, Israel:

This is honestly going in my favourite photos.

Source:

[iamthekaijuking]

Some of the coolest fossil trackways from my vacation

[purpleturtle9000]

would y'all be interested in seeing the doc i have written up for references for the raptors in clever girl

[burdellen]

the uffington horse is incredible, partly also because of its position in an ancient landscape!

it's very close to uffington castle, which is not a castle, it's a bronze age hill fort, possibly made by the same people who made the horse, at a time when the use of horses was really just starting in britain.

just below the horse is dragon hill, an artificially flattened hillock (likely iron age), which legend states is where saint george slew the dragon.

passing by uffington castle is the ridgeway, an ancient long-distance trackway that crosses england's southern chalk downs, from east to west, on an upland route that avoided what would have been areas of undrained marsh on the flats. the ridgeway also takes in avebury stone circle, which is the largest stone circle in the world (big enough to have a village in the middle of it) and part of a vast complex of ancient monuments. parts of the ridgeway are believed to be 5000 years old, and it continued to be used by the romans and then by medieval (and post-medieval) drovers, people who drove livestock long distances on foot to reach markets. it's now a national trail.

just a few miles from uffington, along the ridgeway, is wayland's smithy, actually an early neolithic chambered long barrow, said in legend to have been the forge of wayland, a germanic smith-god.

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[sheltiechicago]

Sandstone carving beside Hell Lane ancient trackway. Dorset, UK. September.

Photographer: Mike Read

[thesilicontribesman]

The Goldcliff Bronze Age Boat Plank, Newport Museum and Galleries, Wales

One of two Bronze Age sewn boat planks reused as an ancient trackway

The plank is part of a sewn boat which would have been held together by willow ropes threaded diagonally through holes. The central section was removed (and replaced) for tree-ring dating, which places the construction of the boat at around 3,100 years ago.

[jameslang209]

Two sets of tracks from different animals. In blue a smaller chirothere front and rear set. In red a much larger chirothere front and rear set. 240 mya. Middle Triassic. Moenkopi Formation.

[great-and-small]

The one thing my dad wanted to do in New York was visit the natural history museum to see the dinosaur footprint trackways- he wasn’t amused when I told him there were some on the sidewalk outside the museum as well

[archaeologicalnews]

90,000-year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach are some of the oldest and best preserved in the world

Two trails of ancient human footprints pressed into a beach in Morocco form one of the largest and best-preserved trackways in the world.

Researchers happened upon the footprint site near the northern tip of North Africa in 2022 while studying boulders at a nearby pocket beach, according to a study published Jan. 23 in the journal Scientific Reports.

"Between tides, I said to my team that we should go north to explore another beach," study lead author Mouncef Sedrati, an associate professor of coastal dynamics and geomorphology at the University of Southern Brittany in France, told Live Science. "We were surprised to find the first print. At first, we weren't convinced it was a footprint, but then we found more of the trackway." Read more.

[makairodonx]

A sketch study of Arthropleura armata, the monstrous cow-sized Late Carboniferous-Early Permian millipede which could grow up to 2.5 meters long and 50-55 cm wide, lived about 346-290 million years ago in Europe and North America, and is the largest terrestrial arthropod ever to have lived, and an impression of an individual leaving behind a trackway in its open woodland habitat somewhere in what is now central France as a Meganeura monyi flies by in the foreground.

Newly-described juvenile specimens from the Montceau-les-Mines fossil site of eastern France reveal that Arthropleura’s facial anatomy was different from those of modern millipedes and that the monster myriapod forms the sister group of the centipede-millipede crown group.

References: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362