The trace was probably made between 93,000 and 83,000 years ago, almost certainly by a puff adder.
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Trackway findings support the notion of southern Africa being one region where human cognitive and practical ability developed a very long time ago.
It hasn’t been clear how common the species was on the Cape south coast because its body fossils are predominantly from southern Africa’s west coast.
Track marks are a way to fill in the blanks that sometimes exist in the body fossil record.
The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.
Collectively, the evidence studied by ichnologists helps to paint a picture of long-gone landscapes and the creatures and plants that populated those spaces.
A trace fossil of an iguana burrow was discovered on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. Estimated to be 115,000 years old, it is the first known fossil of its kind.
