“Unbelievable Discovery: High School Office Reveals Ancient Dinosaur Footprints Hidden for Millennia!”
The Stone Slab Covered With Dinosaur Footprints
The slab was first discovered by coal miners at Callide Basin in Queensland in 2002. The miners handed it over to a geologist, who gifted it to a high school in the small town of Biloela, where his wife was a teacher. For more than two decades, it sat by the school’s office, virtually unnoticed by those who passed by.
This changed after the community learned about work that Anthony Romilio, a paleontologist with of the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, had done on other prehistoric footprints found nearby. Romilio was called to the school — and found the slab covered with more than five dozen dinosaur tracks.
As Romilio told All That’s Interesting, paleontologists had visited the stone before and even taken samples. But somehow, these samples were “lost” — and interest in the stone seemingly waned. Thus, Romilio’s first encounter with the stone was marked by “a mix of surprise and logistical challenges.”
“When I first saw it at the school, despite its modest size, it was far too heavy for a single person to lift,” Romilio recalled. “I had intended to remove it from its mount to place it on the floor for creating a silicone mould (The ‘Muscle Team’ were part of my next visit to solve that problem).”
Romilio continued, “The second significant moment came after I had taken numerous photographs to develop a 2D virtual model of the surface. By applying visualisation techniques such as adding contours, elevation maps, and occlusion shading, the footprints became strikingly apparent. It was only then that I was able to count the remarkably large number of footprints present.”
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