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A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.
A paleontologist discovered dinosaur footprints in the roughly 200 million year old boulder, which was donated to an ...
New Scientist28d
Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in rock at Australian school
Palaeontologists have discovered 66 three-toed dinosaur footprints in a slab of rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland ...
Smithsonian Magazine27d
Students Walked Past This Rock for 20 Years. It Turned Out to Host 66 Dinosaur Footprints From the Jurassic Period
A paleontologist studied the 200-million-year-old prints that had been hiding in plain sight, then discovered even more ...
‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
The fact that this fossil slipped under the radar for decades isn’t surprising, said lead study author Dr. Anthony Romilio, a paleontologist and research associate with the university’s Dinosaur Lab. ...
USA Today20d
This rock slab contains prints from 47 dinosaurs. It was on display at a high school.
Paleontologist Anthony Romilio of the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab made the discovery, and the research was published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Historical Biology.
Boulder displayed in school foyer found to have 200-million-year-old footprints
Scientists say the discovery of 66 footprints on a rock at a Queensland high school are a huge breakthrough in understanding early Jurassic dinosaurs.
NBC New York29d
For 20 years, this school had no idea there was a dinosaur fossil right outside
That's when paleontologist Anthony Romilio came to the high school to examine the boulder and its unusual markings. “I thought, 'Yes, it’s a small boulder, so I can just lift it up.' ...