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Dinosaur and Human Footprints
A fossilized footprint of a dinosaur overlapping a human footprint, known as the Alvis Delk footprint, is claimed to be evidence of coexistence between humans and dinosaurs. This fossil, discovered in July 2000 near Glen Rose, Texas, in Cretaceous limestone, features an eleven-inch human footprint intruded by a dinosaur track, specifically attributed to Acrocanthosaurus.
The Creation Evidence Museum, which possesses the fossil, asserts that CT scans performed on the rock confirmed the authenticity of both prints, showing compression and distribution features consistent with natural formation and ruling out carving or alteration.
The museum and its supporters, including figures like Carl Baugh, argue that such a find would challenge conventional geological and biological timelines, potentially supporting creationist and catastrophist views.

However, the scientific community largely disputes the interpretation of the footprint as human. Critics, including paleontologist Glen Kuban, argue that the “human” footprint lacks key anatomical features of a human foot, such as a distinct arch and proper toe arrangement, and instead resembles a dinosaur track made by a bipedal dinosaur walking in a plantigrade manner, where the entire sole of the foot is pressed into the sediment.
The elongated shape and lack of clear toe impressions are consistent with known dinosaur tracks, particularly those of theropods, which can create impressions that superficially resemble human footprints under certain conditions.
Furthermore, the context of the fossil’s discovery is questionable; the rock was not found in situ on a track bed but on a loose slab, and the provenance details are insufficient to verify its origin.
Some researchers have noted that the “human” track may have been altered, with toes added after the fact, and that the overall pattern aligns more with natural geological processes like erosion or the formation of elongated dinosaur tracks.
The scientific consensus is that the footprint is not a genuine human track but a misinterpretation of a dinosaur footprint formed under specific sedimentary conditions.