A dinosaur footprint is an example of a trace fossil. A trace fossil is a type of fossil that shows the activities of organisms that lived in the past.
Fossils are the preserved remains of organisms that lived several years ago.
Fossils are usually found in sedimentary rocks and thick layers of ice in temperate and polar regions.
Body fossils are the remains of the body parts of an organism that has been preserved. They can be skeletal parts, teeth, eggs e.t.c
A trace fossil shows the preserved remains of the activities of an organism.
They can be fingerprints, burrows and borings, feccal pellets e.t.c
