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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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Massive Footprint

Dinosaurs plodded through the region some 130 million years ago, leaving their heavy tracks in the wet sands of a river delta.

1 posted on 03/28/2017 6:09:03 PM PDT by JimSEA
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I’m guessing the critter that left that track wasn’t worried about predators.


2 posted on 03/28/2017 6:11:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JimSEA

I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.


3 posted on 03/28/2017 6:11:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl

http://www.placestoseeinarizona.com/tuba-city-dinosaur-tracks/


4 posted on 03/28/2017 6:14:15 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: JimSEA
Call me a skeptic but how could they possibly know this from some footprints?

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.

5 posted on 03/28/2017 6:15:21 PM PDT by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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To: JimSEA

Wow, it even left a mummified victim.


6 posted on 03/28/2017 6:17:51 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: JimSEA
Another one:


7 posted on 03/28/2017 6:19:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: JimSEA

That was a small dinosaur. That’s the one that got hit by the comet.


8 posted on 03/28/2017 6:19:27 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Bodleian_Girl

“I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.”

There were humans walking in Texas 60 million years ago?


9 posted on 03/28/2017 6:20:16 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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10 posted on 03/28/2017 6:22:23 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Timpanagos1

Well, dinos and humans walked together according to the rocks, which as you know, don’t lie.


11 posted on 03/28/2017 6:22:25 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Fzob

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.


12 posted on 03/28/2017 6:22:36 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Bodleian_Girl

“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?


13 posted on 03/28/2017 6:25:32 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Fzob

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.


14 posted on 03/28/2017 6:28:21 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( rent this space)
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To: Timpanagos1

The Taylor Trail and McFall Trail.


15 posted on 03/28/2017 6:31:06 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I love the ones in Texas of the men and dinos together.


Yes, that is neat.


16 posted on 03/28/2017 6:33:30 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Timpanagos1

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.


17 posted on 03/28/2017 6:33:40 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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>>Largest-Known Dinosaur Footprint<<

Newt Gingrich was in Australia?


18 posted on 03/28/2017 6:37:06 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: Rurudyne

Carbon dating can be stretched to about 50,000 years due to its short half life. The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.


19 posted on 03/28/2017 6:41:12 PM PDT by Clay Moore (JRandomFreeper, SWAMPSNIPER RIP)
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To: Fzob

A degree in paleontology could abolish your skepticism.


20 posted on 03/28/2017 6:50:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (Read my profile for how to really reduce healthcare costs & improve quality.)
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