You go for a hike across an outcropping of sandstone and you see large footprints in the sandstone. You have just found______ .
A) proof of an ancient flood
B) a mold
C) Bigfoot
D) a trace fossil

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The footprints in the sandstone are likely a type of trace fossil, also known as ichnofossils, which provide evidence of animal behavior or activity in the past. The footprints may have been made by a now-extinct animal, or they may have been made by an ancestor of a modern species.

You Go for a Hike Across an Outcropping of Sandstone