Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
After Chalking With Dinosaurs with Burnsy on BBC Radio Humberside this week, I intended my next post to be on the Megalosaurus trackways of Oxfordshire. However, my better half then showed me this video: We immediately found ourselves thinking: “That would be cool with dinosaur feet!” Then we thought “Actually, it would be cooler with correctly sized dinosaur feet that...
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...
As GeoWeek 2020 starts on Saturday May 9th, so does Chalking With Dinosaurs. And since we can’t all go to the Dinosaur Coast this weekend and hunt fossilized footprints, let’s bring the dinosaurs to our streets, our driveways, and our houses. My video below gives an introduction to Chalking With Dinosaurs, and the science of ichnology. The Jurassic rocks of...
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...
