Three field palaeontologists on a hunt for early dinosaurs travelled to Tait Berg in East Greenland in the summer of 1989. They agreed that Neil Shubin, then a rookie scientist, could tag along. It was a successful mission.

Shubin encountered an impression of a three-toed footprint – with fierce-looking claws. The discovery was made in a red sandstone ledge roughly the size of two football fields. Hundreds of tracks have been found at the site. They had been left by large and small dinosaurs criss-crossing each other around 200 million years ago. The ledge was later dubbed “the dinosaur dance ...

 

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