A large boulder used as decoration in a rural Australian high school’s foyer is actually covered in dinosaur footprints —it just took around 20 years for anyone to notice. After examining the ancient rock,

Scientists say the discovery of 66 footprints on a rock at a Queensland high school are a huge breakthrough in understanding early Jurassic dinosaurs.

Fossilised dinosaur footprints have been discovered on rock that was sat in a school entrance hall for 20 years

Dozens of dinosaur footprints embedded in a boulder were found hiding in plain sight at an Australian school, according to researchers.

A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

A rock slab that's been stored at a high school in Queensland, Australia, for 20 years reveals 66 dinosaur footprints from the early Jurassic period.

"It's incredible to think that a piece of history this rich was resting in a schoolyard all this time." In 2002, coal miners in Queensland, Australia, uncovered a rock slab with several three-toed footprints preserved in it.