It's a race against time and the elements to save a onceinalifetime dinosaur find. These footprints are almost 100 million years old!

The huge tracks from sauropods — like a brachiosaurus — are rare in Australia, but these look to be some of the bestpreserved prints around.

The smaller footprints belong to twolegged creatures — a chicken sized insecteater and a emu sized herbivore.

The dig site is a dried creek bed near the town of Winton in central west Queensland. The area is prone to floods. And while it was floodwater that brought these prints to light, it could floodwater that spells their end.

This isn't your average dinosaur dig. ABC Science Reporter, Belinda Smith watches as the palaeontologists excavate and relocate the trackway to Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

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