Question: What is an inchnologist?

Liam Herringshaw answered on 5 Jun 2020:

An ichnologist is someone who studies fossil tracks, traces and burrows. This includes everything from dinosaur footprints (https://vimeo.com/416114863) to fossilized farts (yes, they really do exist: https://twitter.com/fossiliam/status/1263941668912402433!). I’m particularly interested in the behaviour of animals in the sea, such as burrowing worms, as they are really important to the oceans in all sorts of ways: for food, for habitat, for helping move oxygen and other nutrients around, even for economic purposes (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161017111545.htm). Being an ichnologist has allowed me to visit places all over the world, including rocks in Canada that are more than half a billion years old, to study how, where, and when burrowing sea creatures evolved.