Massive Footprint
Dinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.
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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Massive Footprint
Dinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.
I’m guessing the critter that left that track wasn’t worried about predators.
I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.
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.
Wow, it even left a mummified victim.
That was a small dinosaur. That’s the one that got hit by the comet.
“I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.”
There were humans walking in Texas 60 million years ago?
Well, dinos and humans walked together according to the rocks, which as you know, don’t lie.
Where they have the fossils of the feet, they can definitively match the footprint. Similar foot structures have similar but not identical footprints. Four legged herbivores are quite different from two legged carnivores and herbivores.
“Well, dinos and humans walked together according to the rocks, which as you know, don’t lie.”
As in “walked together,” you mean at same time?
Where and when did the dinosaurs and man walk together?
I don’t know, if I had the appetite of a dinosaur I would not be at all picky about the chow. Omnivores fare better. There had to be some real big eggs lying around, not to mention plenty of road kill what with all those giant feet tromping around.
The Taylor Trail and McFall Trail.
I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.
Yes, that is neat.
Well, there’s this one creek bed in Texas.
Also, you have carvings and such showing known dinosaurs much as they would have looked in the flesh in places, for example, like Ankor Wat.
Please realize that sort tissue has been found in dinosaur bones and that it has been claimed that carbon dating has been performed. That C14 would be found at all seems impossible.
Clearly, something is hinkey somewhere.
>>Largest-Known Dinosaur Footprint<<
Newt Gingrich was in Australia?
Carbon dating can be stretched to about 50,000 years due to its short half life. The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
A degree in paleontology could abolish your skepticism.
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