Joe Thompson, a fossil tour guide from Wight Coast Fossils, found a rare purple dinosaur footprint on the Isle of Wight.

"They are amazing but ephemeral glimpses of an early Cretaceous world and its inhabitants," tour company Wight Coast Fossils said of such clay prints Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE.

The giant purple footprint is the latest of a host of paleontological discoveries made on the Isle of Wight, which is sometimes called “Dinosaur Island.” ...

Saltwick Bay is a dinosaur fossil hotspot in the United Kingdom, but that didn’t dull the excitement and importance of coming ...

A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon species ... Paleontologist Joe Thompson, a fossil guide with Wight Coast Fossils who unearthed the print, told Fox News Digital that he made the ...

A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon species ... Paleontologist Joe Thompson, a fossil guide with Wight Coast Fossils who unearthed the print, told Fox News Digital that he made the ...

BBC One's Walking with Dinosaurs revival saw palaeontologists encounter one of the largest footprints ever found during ...

Scientists found 80 dinosaur footprints in China that show a meat-eating dinosaur walking, then speeding up for a bit and ...

A Geo-Safari tour guide has discovered a dinosaur fossil on Saltwick Bay next to Whitby Holiday Park, believed to be the ...

“They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself,” said Romilio ... there was this massive boulder with another massive dinosaur footprint that’s just staring at you,” he said.

One of the most pressing lingering mysteries is how Archaeopteryx managed to fly above its fellow feathered dinosaur relatives ... most detailed and complete fossil sets arrived at the Chicago ...