Australian discovery of 120m-year-old footprints provides earliest evidence for birds in southern hemisphere

Bird tracks found in Victoria were initially thought to have come from dinosaurs but later identified as 'transitional' animalGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMelissa Lowery was out looking for dinosaur fossils at a spot on Australia's south coast where she'd found scores before, when she looked down at her feet."The shadows fell into these gorgeous little shapes, they were so familiar. I stood staring at these shapes for around 10 minutes," Lowery, a volunteer fossil hunter, says. Continue reading...