March
12
/ 2025
An astonishing and long-overlooked collection of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock on display inside a small-town Australian school, scientists announced recently. Incredibly, the rock went largely unnoticed for two decades, until officials from the school in Queensland's rural Banana shire asked University of Queensland paleontologist Anthony Romilio (an active local fossil hunter) to examine the cluster of three-toed track marks that covered the surfaces of the heavy rock. Much to his surprise and delight, Romilio discovered that the slab was covered with dozens of fossilized footprints dating to the early Jurassic period, some 200 million years ago. The rock was imprinted with "one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints" ever documented in Australia
