47 Dinosaurs Left Footprints in a Boulder at an Australian High School

These footprints are believed to have been made by a small herbivorous dinosaur and are classified as Anomoepus scambus. The boulder contains “13 trackways and numerous isolated prints representing one of the most densely concentrated dinosaur track surfaces in Australia.”

Apparently a geologist married to a teacher at the school donated the chunk of rock, which was going to be destroyed in mining operations and was covered in what appeared to be “chicken footprints,” to the school. It sat in the foyer for two decades before it was looked at by researchers.

The footprints have been interpreted through the lens of evolutionary ideas, but really they should remind us of the global flood of Noah’s day.

Of course, the footprints have been interpreted through the lens of evolutionary ideas, but really they should remind us of the global flood of Noah’s day. Footprints don’t routinely fossilize in today’s world—they’re washed away, especially footprints formed in “subaqueous, moderate-to-high energy conditions,” as researchers believe these footprints likely were. It takes unique conditions, such as rapid burial, to preserve something as delicate as a footprint—and to preserve the footprints so well we can observe individual trackways and prints!

Once again, the observational science reminds us of the global flood, not of millions of years of slow and gradual processes.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of Dr. Gabriela Haynes and AiG’s research team.