Just like people have fingerprints, animals leave footprints behind that make it easy to identify what type of animal has been around even if the creature is nowhere in sight.

Animal footprint shoes, including Bigfoot, leave ‘mystery’ tracks in snow Mark Molloy. Published April 17, 2012 12:05pm Updated December 9, 2019 2:40pm Share ...

The animal who made this track on the lake at Elm Creek Regional Park slipped on the ice, which is what made the long track at the bottom. Volunteers with the Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project ...

Location is key to animal tracks and what the most common footprints are. Jacob, for example, lives on the West Coast and frequents mudflats where she will see wildlife in intertidal regions ...