10/12/2026
DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS FROM A FLOOD
A remarkable dinosaur tracksite in central Mongolia has preserved a moment from the past in stone. Instead of fossilized bones, researchers have found multiple trackways left by giant long-necked sauropods and large predatory theropods, showing that numerous dinosaurs once moved across the same landscape.
Secular researchers claim these footprints are roughly 120 million years old because they were found in what has been classified as the Lower Cretaceous Shinekhudag Formation. But we reject that date. The footprints themselves do not contain a label saying “120 million years old,” nor was that age directly observed or measured from the moment the dinosaurs walked there. The date comes from placing the rock layers into a preexisting deep-time geological framework.
What the physical evidence actually shows is much simpler: dinosaurs walked across soft, wet sediment, leaving tracks behind. Those tracks then had to be buried and preserved before weather, erosion, or further disturbance destroyed them.
That is especially important because footprints are temporary. Tracks left in exposed mud do not normally survive for vast periods waiting to become fossils. They require the right conditions for burial and preservation. Here, multiple trackways from enormous sauropods and large predatory theropods were preserved together, revealing an active dinosaur landscape that was rapidly overtaken by additional sediment.
For Biblical Creationists, these tracks fit naturally within a young earth and the catastrophic conditions surrounding the Genesis Flood. Dinosaurs were real animals created by God, and many were buried during the Flood just thousands of years ago, not millions. Tracksites like this may preserve brief windows when dinosaurs moved across freshly deposited, water-saturated sediments before later waves of sediment buried their footprints