Death By Footprint!

Imagine dying after falling into a footprint! Only in the prehistoric world could this happen.

An unusual fossil find shows a group of tiny feathered dinosaurs died after falling into the deep muddy footprints of a much-larger Sauropod dinosaur.

Skeletons of 18 small two-legged dinosaurs were discovered stacked on top of each other in the 160-million-year-old sediments of an ancient marsh in China.

Apparently the unlucky victims of the footprint death were less than 1 metre tall and 1 to 3 metres long so they would have been too short to push against the bottom of the muddy pit and their arms would have been covered with mud-slicked feathers and too small to pull them out of the hole.

Just shows how dangerous it is to follow in someone else’s footprint!