Monthly Archive: May, 2020

I don’t even work on dinosaurs, and here I am, yet again, writing about the crunching great lizard monsters and their footprints. It’s all a very elaborate ruse to get you hooked on ichnology, such that I can then start making videos such as Crawling With Ragworms and Irrigating With Thalassinids. Hey ho, it’s all good fun, and here we...

On Saturday May 9th 2020, as promised, I chalked a load of dinosaur footprints onto my driveway. My video below explains what I did, and what a single footprint can tell us about the tracemaker. WARNING: this video features some low-quality singing. If you want to go chalking with dinosaurs, here’s my checklist: 1. Choose a footprint you want to...

The Yorkshire Coast is one of the best places in the world to walk with dinosaurs. The Jurassic rocks exposed between Staithes and Scarborough have yielded huge numbers of fossil dinosaur footprints, and scientists from all over the world come to North Yorkshire to better understand how dinosaurs lived and behaved. In the absence of being able to go and...