footprint

     

Footprints are the impressions or images left behin by a person walking. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot. A "trackway" is set of footprints in soft earth left by a life-form; animal tracks are the footprints, hoofprints, or pawprints of an animal.

Trivia about footprint

  • Sole impression left by the unshod
  • In 2001 Chinese scientists said a group of these made by dinosaurs included one 1 1/2 yards long
  • An ichnite or ichnolite is a fossilized one of these, perhaps from a sasquatch?