Paleo.cc is what happens when somebody spends long enough looking at dinosaur footprints that the website becomes a field notebook, photo archive, argument repository and fossil workshop all at once.
Glen Kuban’s site centers heavily on fossil trackways, especially the famous Paluxy River beds near Glen Rose, Texas. The area is known for dinosaur tracks and for decades of claims that some impressions represented human footprints alongside dinosaurs.
Kuban’s archive attacks that controversy with the kind of detail only a specialist site bothers to accumulate.
There are articles, photo galleries, maps, site notes, track measurements, historical claims, rebuttals and discussions of supposed “out of place” fossils and artifacts. The homepage also points to more recent field work, including a long Paluxy trail documented in 2022.
The archive keeps the evidence close to the argument
The strongest part of Paleo.cc is that it does not stop at saying a claim is wrong.
The site shows the tracks.
Kuban’s Paluxy material includes thousands of photographs and maps, letting readers compare individual impressions, trails and changing interpretations. That matters because footprint controversies are unusually vulnerable to bad reproductions. A vague depression photographed at the right angle can become almost anything once it starts circulating without context.
The site also reaches beyond the Texas debate. It covers the NASA Goddard track slab from Maryland, fossil clubs, artwork and other dinosaur-track projects.
Then there is PaleoScene, Kuban’s fossil-cast business. He describes making his own molds, casting replicas in high-strength gypsum cement or resin, hand painting them and labeling them with scientific name, locality, geological age and formation. The commercial section is useful in its own right because it records how educational fossil replicas are actually produced and sold by a small specialist operation.
Paleo.cc is a good example of why independent scientific websites matter even when the layout feels old. The site’s value is not presentation. It is accumulated context.
A modern social-media post might show a dramatic footprint and generate a thousand arguments by lunch. Kuban’s archive instead gives the visitor years of photographs, maps, names, locations and competing claims to work through.
That makes it exactly the kind of obscure expert material worth preserving in CacheRat’s Ancient Web research corpus.
Dinosaur tracks survived millions of years in limestone.
The captions have had a harder time.