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At a famous fossil locality of Germany called Solnhofen area, paleontologists discovered a 9.7 meter long mortchnia of a horse shoe crab designating as the world's longest fossillized death track ever found.Horseshoe crabs are the living fossils having their origins stretching to 450 million years ago in Ordovician Period.Till date only 4 living creatures has been found.Solnhofen area is already famous for its discovery of Archaeopteryx, the ‘dino-bird' and is considered as excellent in terms of preservation of fossils- often found to preserve the soft parts of animals.The track discovered is 9.7m or 31.8 foot in length displaying beginning and end and hence preserving the crab in the process.The trackway displayed footprints, tail marks, head prints and several walking stylesleft the discoverers to wander that what exactly was happening to the animal while it was leaving footprints of its death march.