<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A fossil find at a central Queensland school has dinosaur experts excited with the special stone capturing the most dinosaur footprints ever found on a single surface.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The remarkable rock, unearthed in a central Queensland mine, is covered in 66 tracks and helps show what life was like 200 million years ago.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The footprints match those found on other rocks near Rockhampton and Roma.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/influencer-filmed-taking-baby-wombat-from-mother-side-of-the-road-in-australia/0a4f364f-8edd-4c41-9f97-1258e2b4ecaf" target="_blank"><strong><span>'Extreme distress': Influencer cops backlash over baby wombat video</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Nearly 50 dinosaurs were walking on this," Anthony Romilio, University of Queensland Palaeontologist, said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's the largest number of footprints we've found on a single block.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When you find a skeleton that's when they're dead.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/dinosaur-prints-queensland-rock-school/adc70bcf-1e29-41ba-b7e7-f43b31748e0e" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When you find footprints they've actually made those while they're alive and so that gives us an insight into their behaviour."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The boulder was first found two decades ago but it's importance initially went unnoticed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It was taken to Biloela State High School, where it sat in the foyer for almost 17 years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I was just grateful that the people contacted me and I was able to present it to the world today," Romilio said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/donald-trump-rules-out-tariff-exemption-australian-steel-and-aluminium/2b339ef2-d341-475d-ad11-f62fb6f08dec" target="_blank"><strong><span>Dutton claims Albanese 'can't even get a phone call' with Trump amid tariff blow</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's believed it was under a shallow river in the central Queensland region where these creatures walked regularly.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The size of the footprints indicate that they weren't large.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Some species were only about 30 centimetres tall and others closer to a metre. There were lots of them, spread right across the state.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We find the same type of dinosaur footprint in Carnarvon Gorge and Mount Morgan so we know this type of dinosaur had a broad distribution," Romilio said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's just a snapshot of a moment in the lives of these amazing creatures."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/brisbane-crystal-beale-appeal--river-death/4eab000a-5382-4eac-82c3-59a4b3371e95" target="_blank"><strong><span>Murder probe sparked after mum's body found in 'horrific circumstances'</span></strong></a></div></div>