Since 1948, the barren Nemegt area of Mongolia's Gobi Desert has been a fossil hunter's nirvana. Bones from thousands of dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the shores of an ancient river 83 million to 65 million years ago have been dug up.But in 2001 Canadian and Mongolian researchers led by Phil Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology were startled to discover "fossilized footprints." And there weren't just one or two footprints, scientifically known as ichnites. You could see where one dinosaur had stepped in the track of another and where one dinosaur had stepped on the head of another after death.In an October paper in the journal Ichnos describing their findings, the scientists reflect that an astounding thing about the embarrassment of footprint riches was that none of the previous expeditions had noticed them even though they were everywhere you looked.

"Some of the footprints were literally 10 metres from our tent. Another was walked by every day, with some people going to one side and another to the other," Dr. Currie says. "But it wasn't just us. Russian, Poles, Bulgarians, Americans, Canadians, Chinese and Mongolians all had gone into that site and nobody had ever seen them."

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It is amazing to look at dinosaur foot prints.

If a time machine is invented in my time, I'll definitely go see Dinosaurs first-off. Coolest things nature ever served up!

Cool! I want to see a pic of the head imprint lol.

I don't know of many dinosaurs that walked on their heads.

You could always view dinosaur skulls at museums though.

That makes it even worse. Mind you to be honest, I wouldn't mind viewing that.

might be T-rex or.......

I've always loved dinosaurs. I think they're too cool. But then again, I'm a dork *sigh* God bless you!!

I like the reference to the Eaters of the Dead. YaY

Cool.