1
: a beaten or trodden path
2
: a series of fossil footprints (as of a dinosaur)
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Only five other instances have been discovered—four trackways in China and one near Moab, Utah.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
But the petroglyphs placement, and the design of some of the figures, was clearly inspired by the much more ancient trackways.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
There, paleontologists from the museum and partners Naturalis Biodiversity Center and University of Manchester have dug up land and sea creatures and trackways.
—The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
Altogether, Groenewald and colleagues report, the fossil surface preserves 15 distinct trackways that may have been made by a single temnospondyl.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
The victim was waiting for the train shortly after 9 p.m. when he was shoved from the edge of the platform onto the trackway about five feet below, forcing him to scramble to safety moments ahead of an approaching northbound train, according to BART police.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020
One of the project’s most popular archeological finds to date is a Bronze Age trackway in the ancient submerged landscape of Cleethropes, Northeast Lincolnshire, Ostrich said.
—Kristin Butler, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2016
Researchers published their Glenrock trackway findings in the journal Cretaceous Research.
—Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2016
Erosion eventually exposed part of the roughly 80-foot-long trackway, and, beginning in 1978, archaeologists working with paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey excavated the rest.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
But the petroglyphs placement, and the design of some of the figures, was clearly inspired by the much more ancient trackways.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
There, paleontologists from the museum and partners Naturalis Biodiversity Center and University of Manchester have dug up land and sea creatures and trackways.
—The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
Altogether, Groenewald and colleagues report, the fossil surface preserves 15 distinct trackways that may have been made by a single temnospondyl.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
The victim was waiting for the train shortly after 9 p.m. when he was shoved from the edge of the platform onto the trackway about five feet below, forcing him to scramble to safety moments ahead of an approaching northbound train, according to BART police.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020
One of the project’s most popular archeological finds to date is a Bronze Age trackway in the ancient submerged landscape of Cleethropes, Northeast Lincolnshire, Ostrich said.
—Kristin Butler, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2016
Researchers published their Glenrock trackway findings in the journal Cretaceous Research.
—Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2016
Erosion eventually exposed part of the roughly 80-foot-long trackway, and, beginning in 1978, archaeologists working with paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey excavated the rest.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
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