footprint
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Ancient Humans Left Drawings Next to Dinosaur Footprints in Brazil
Ancient South Americans were apparently inspired by fossilized dinosaur tracks in what is now eastern Brazil, where they cut figures into the rock, imprinted tens of millions of years earlier by the movements of giants. The dinosaur tracks belong to theropods, sauropods, and iguanodontians, and are spread across three rock outcroppings in the Brazilian state…
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There’s a Big Flaw When Using Environmental Footprint Calculators That We Need to Address
Are you one of the increasingly large number of people seeking to minimise the environmental damage wrought when producing the food you eat? If so, you might use the common “environmental footprint” method to decide what to buy. Environmental footprints measure the environmental damage caused by a product throughout its life. For food, this includes…
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Hundreds of Fossilised Footprints From Ancient, Bear-Sized Mammals Found in Wyoming
For years, paleontologists and paleobotanists have spent time on Wyoming’s Hanna Formation, a 58-million-year-old zone of rock in the southern part of the state that contains a wealth of fossils of marine fauna like ammonites and various forms of ancient plant life. In 2019, though, Anton Wroblewski stumbled across something new: a massive exposed trackway…