Tracks suggest chase, capture, and after-meal respite

From St. Paul, Minn., at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

The still life portrayed in a 315-million-year-old set of fossil footprints discovered in southwestern Indiana is a poignant vignette of life, death, and satiation.

The 1.3-meter-long, S-shaped trackway preserves the footprints left by two different creatures. The left and right feet of the animal that made the smaller set of impressions were spaced about 2.3