This photo captured at Doran Beach brings to mind a well-known poem, "Footprints in the Sand." In this image, however, there ...

In this instance, the footprints were found in a rocky area along the Moroccan coastline initially covered with sand.As is often ... including the beach’s proximity to the sea, the composition ...

like beach sand, that left a layer on the landscape. Then a light rain fell onto the ash to create something like wet cement -- an ideal material for trapping footprints. Birds and mammals left a ...

pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach. It is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient footprints here. The sandy stretch of the north-west ...

The team decided to rebury the tracks with fine sand until a ... of a lake or a modern beach, you’ve got kind of a narrow zone where the mud is perfect for making footprints.

Have you ever been for a walk and noticed a trail of footprints? Maybe you were walking across a sandy beach, along a muddy path or in the park after it had been snowing. You might even see them ...

“And it just hits you differently visually when you see those footprints — just as if you were walking in the sand at the beach.” Elizabeth Hlavinka is a staff writer at Salon covering ...