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Largest-Known Dinosaur Footprint (Australia)
Smithsonian ^ | 3/27/17 | Bridget Katz

Posted on 03/28/2017 6:09:03 PM PDT by JimSEA

group of scientists say they have discovered “Australia’s Jurassic Park” along the rocky shores of Kimberly, a remote region in Western Australia. As Jonathan Amos reports for the BBC, palaeontologists found a diverse collection of dinosaur footprints in the area—among them the largest dinosaur footprint known to science.

The research team, which was comprised of palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University, recorded twenty-one types of fossil footprints stamped into the sandstones of the Dampier Peninsula. They recently published their findings in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

“There were five different types of predatory dinosaur tracks, at least six types of tracks from long-necked herbivorous sauropods, four types of tracks from two-legged herbivorous ornithopods, and six types of tracks from armoured dinosaurs,” lead researcher Steven Salisbury says in a statement. The tracks also provide the only known evidence of stegosaurs in Australia, Salisbury notes.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: australia; dinosaurs
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To: Fzob

A degree in paleontology could abolish your skepticism.


21 posted on 03/28/2017 6:50:33 PM PDT by entropy12 (Read my profile for how to really reduce healthcare costs & improve quality.)
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To: Clay Moore

Dating is done using a rather large number of isotopes. 200?

Dating is usually performed using more than one isotope to compare estimated ages
Carbon 14 is much more accurate than it used to be due to our ability to measure billionths of something.


22 posted on 03/28/2017 6:50:46 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Rurudyne

There were dinosaurs runnning around Ankor Wat 800 years ago?


23 posted on 03/28/2017 6:51:08 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: BenLurkin

“I’m guessing the critter that left that track wasn’t worried about predators.”


Oh, but you should see the predators.


24 posted on 03/28/2017 6:52:50 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: JimSEA

How did the dinosaurs swim to Australia which is not connected to other continents?

OTOH Asia, Africa & America’s were connected by land.


25 posted on 03/28/2017 6:54:12 PM PDT by entropy12 (Read my profile for how to really reduce healthcare costs & improve quality.)
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To: Rurudyne

There’s more than plenty of scientific proof out there if you’re willing to look it up of humans and dinosaurs coexisting together.

Mayan pyramids, ruins in South America, even in the Bible the book of Job clearly describes two now extinct “dinosaurs” that Job was familiar with during his years alive.

Modern man in their arrogance think they have it all figured out and in reality we’re about the most clueless generation to walk the earth in a very long time.


26 posted on 03/28/2017 6:55:25 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Lol


27 posted on 03/28/2017 6:57:13 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Rurudyne

You are full of it


28 posted on 03/28/2017 6:58:08 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: entropy12

Please do your homework before posting.


29 posted on 03/28/2017 7:01:32 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: JimSEA
Ain't got sh!t on Godzilla:


30 posted on 03/28/2017 7:01:49 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

ROTFLMAO


31 posted on 03/28/2017 7:02:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: laplata
I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.

I wonder which one was holding on to the leash...

32 posted on 03/28/2017 7:03:06 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: JimSEA

33 posted on 03/28/2017 7:07:55 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pres. Herbert Hoover)
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To: TexasGator

Your post = proof of that arrogance.

LOL!


34 posted on 03/28/2017 7:10:39 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: TexasGator; Bodleian_Girl; Rurudyne

LOL you’re full of it too.


35 posted on 03/28/2017 7:11:39 PM PDT by gettinolder
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To: Timpanagos1

Where and when did the dinosaurs and man walk together?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On the day that both were made. Both were made on the same day. Check the manufacturer’s manual!


36 posted on 03/28/2017 7:12:49 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Iscool

Lol


37 posted on 03/28/2017 7:15:23 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: PrairieLady2

FR is full of indoctrinated & brainwashed non-thinkers these days


38 posted on 03/28/2017 7:16:48 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: JimSEA
Is it weird that the same species of dinosaurs evolved the same way although on completely separate continents? Hmmmm.
39 posted on 03/28/2017 7:16:57 PM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: Rurudyne
famous Angkor Wat carvings. The upper animal seems to be a wild cow "banteng" and the lower one with similar horn seems to be a banteng with leaves in the background. If it were a dinosaur, I suspect there would be far more than one carving. A stegosaurus would make a really big impression on folks and merit many carvings.
40 posted on 03/28/2017 7:18:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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