The findings shed light on how organic molecules like collagen may survive for tens of millions of years within dinosaur bones.

For more than 20 years, a simple white slab sat in the main office of Biloela State High School, blending into the background. It was a relic of the nearby Callide Mine, a gift to the school by a geologist.

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.

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.

Learn more about the schoolyard dinosaur discovery, which found 200-million-year-old fossilized footprints on a boulder from Australia's Early Jurassic period hiding in plain sight.

"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.