Professor Matthew McLain from The Master’s University and students from a geology class he taught last fall discovered what they believe to be the first-ever fossil footprints found at Vasquez Rocks in Agua Dulce.
After some research, McLain and some of his students learned the prints are from some small carnivore that lived in the area millions of years ago.
“We’re still trying to nail it down exactly and see if we can get more specific than that,” McLain said during a telephone interview. “But it’s probably from a group of extinct small dog-like creatures we call Hesperocyoninae. So, imagine a little fox kind of guy running around.”…