It may surprise you to learn that we can find swimming trace fossils! Bottom feeding fish, like this Notogoneus from Fossil Butte National Monument, created sinusoidal waves on the mud from the natural flexing of their tails.
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Behavior like locomotion is rarely preserved in the fossil record. However, every now and then, we find stellar tracks of animals walking, running, crawling, and even swimming. This week we'll look at great examples of these trace fossils.
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