Animal tracks hold their shape best in thin, wet layers of snow. Loose, dry snow often won't hold the details of prints well enough to identify them by shape. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Raccoon tracks are easy to spot in the snow. (Photo: JT8/Shutterstock) Raccoons are perhaps the most conspicuous of urban and suburban neighbors. These nocturnal animals spend plenty of time ...

Polar bear track dimensions: 5 ¾ inches long, 9 inches wide (front tracks), 13 inches long, 9 inches wide (hind tracks) Animal Tracks: Furbearers and Small Game. These tracks all look more varied and ...

HAVERTY: Brown's been reading animal tracks for 30 years. BROWN: For me, language is like a code. And decoding it reveals all sorts of information that I didn't know before.

Tracking animal footprints in the snow. Few critters are making themselves visible. By MARY F. WILLSON FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE; Friday, December 21, 2018 10:00am ...

Rock faces in Namibia are decorated with hundreds of stone-age images not only of animals and human footprints, but also of animal tracks. These have been largely neglected to date as researchers ...

The footprints and tracks left behind by dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are called trace fossils. These imprints can offer clues to how quickly an organism walked or ran and even what ...

Dinosaur tracks provide a snapshot of when these animals roamed across our planet. They are direct evidence of how an individual was behaving at a specific moment in time. Fossilised bones aren't ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne. The fossil tracks date to around 350 million ...

The animal was around 2 ½ feet long (80 cm) and its feet has long fingers and claws, which are visible in newly discovered fossil footprints. (Marcin Ambrozik/Prof. Per Erik Ahlberg via AP) ...