I wonder if someday, he thought,
perhaps someone will maybe notice
that I stood here?
He stared across the endless,
quaking mudflats,
steaming beneath a hot, young sun.
As his feet began to slowly sink,
he crushed some lowly creature
gasping for breath beneath his heel.
Sighing at all creation and the report
he must now send to his superiors,
he unwittingly left his mark.
Mar 12, 2018
Mar 12, 2018 at 6:03 AM UTC
I wonder if someday, he thought,
perhaps someone will maybe notice
that I stood here?
He stared across the endless,
quaking mudflats,
steaming beneath a hot, young sun.
As his feet began to slowly sink,
he crushed some lowly creature
gasping for breath beneath his heel.
Sighing at all creation and the report
he must now send to his superiors,
he unwittingly left his mark.
On a fossil discovered in 1968 near Antelope Spring Utah by Mr. William J. Meister. It appears to be a fossilized boot or sandal print. What makes this fossil even more unusual is the trilobite fossil in the "heel" part of the print.
The wearer evidently stepped on and crushed
a living trilobite!
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