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Fossils Indicate Earliest Dinosaurs Were Size of a Cat

(Oct. 6) -- Paleontologists say they've found the oldest evidence of the emergence of dinosaurs -- 250-million-year-old fossilized footprints that suggest the earliest ones were small, cat-size animals that walked on all fours. "We describe the indisputably oldest fossils of the dinosaur lineage: footprints from the Early...

Footprints in the Snow: Giants

Footprints in the Snow is FanHouse's look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. The Giants made a nice improvement from 72 victories in 2008 to 88 in 2009, achieved pretty much because of an outstanding pitching staff. The Giants aren't likely to pitch better in 2010 than they did...

Background on footprints

Footprints (or ) are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot. A "trackway" is set of footprints in soft earth left by a life-form; animal tracks are the footprints, hoofprints, or pawprints of an animal.

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