
An area in the United Kingdom known as a “dinosaur highway” has more than 200 dinosaur tracks. The conditions in that area in the dinosaur age allowed the preservation of tracks of all kinds of dinosaurs in clay with amazing detail. Some of the tracks are from herbivorous sauropods. They were the most enormous dinosaurs that ever lived, leaving tracks more than thirty feet long and 1 ½ feet deep. The recent discovery of megalosaurus tracks, a predator that stood 30 feet tall, expanded our knowledge of what dinosaurs were like in the distant past.
In the 57 years this program has existed, we have seen many claims about dinosaur tracks. Glen Rose, Texas, has a state park where dinosaur tracks are the main attraction. Nearby, on Jake McFall’s farm, are what are claimed to be dinosaur tracks and human tracks in the same rock strata. The dinosaur tracks are huge, and the human tracks are around 16 inches long. McFall claims that the human tracks were made by giants, misreading the “nephilim” of Genesis 6. An interesting fact is that the tracks have the same depth. When I asked Jake why the tracks were the same depth when the dinosaur was the size of his house and the human was said to be nine feet tall, he had no answer.
Frequently, claims of tracks are in rocks that would not allow footprints. Near Albuquerque, New Mexico, there are sandal-shaped footprints in the rocks overlooking the city. The problem is that these rocks are intrusive igneous rocks, meaning they were formed deep in the Earth. They would have been much too hard for footprints to form.
More to the point is the information we can get by studying footprints and realizing the purpose for dinosaurs’ existence. Animals as big as the ones that left tracks in the “dinosaur highway” would have consumed massive amounts of plant material. We see that in coprolites (dinosaur poop) found in the area, which is 100% plant material. That plant material would eventually lead to some of the fossil fuels humans have depended on during the past century.
Today, there is a need to move to renewable fuels, but what got us to the high standard of living we can enjoy today is the materials produced by the dinosaurs and the ecological system they dominated. As we uncover the history of our planet recorded in the rocks, we see the power and wisdom of God. Our existence is not the product of accidents but of wisdom and design built into every record of the past, including dinosaur tracks.
–John N. Clayton © 2025
Reference: apnews.com