Posted on 12/20/2017 9:33:35 AM PST by Simon Green
(Parks Victoria released a photo on December 20, which shows a dinosaur footprint after it was damaged by vandals at Flat Rocks near Melbourne)
Vandals used a hammer to smash a 115-million-year-old three-toed dinosaur footprint in a national park in Australia. Park rangers at the Bunurong Marine Park discovered the damage to the theropod footprint while taking a school group on a tour.
The one-foot wide print was found in 2006 and deliberately left in place to allow visitors to see it in its natural state in one of the world’s few ice-age dinosaur sites.
"It is so disappointing,” Parks Victoria ranger Brian Martin told ABC News.
“It's a popular, significant site. The rock there is reasonably hard so it looks like it's been hit with a hammer and pieces of the rock around the edge of the footprint have been broken away.”
The identity of the culprits and the possible motive remain unknown, but it appears the vandals were familiar with the footprint.
“For someone to damage it intentionally, you'd have to have a rough idea of where it is because seaweed grows on the rock platform and it looks like a normal rock until you look closely and see the outline of the footprint," Mr Martin said.
(The footprint before it was smashed)
Broken fragments of the print were found on the surrounding rock platform in which it is embedded.
Palaeontologists made a silicon rubber mould of the print after it was discovered. It is hoped that technicians will be able to restore the print.
The national park, east of Melbourne, was once roamed by at least six different types of carnivorous dinosaurs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Well, I've been to many zoos, national parks, and African game preserves. Not a dinosaur in sight, regardless of size.
Just where are these (dwarf) t-rexes and brontosauruses hanging out?
Remember when Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore? The science dudes likewise decided that burds are actually dinosaurs, hence dinos never went extinct afterall.
*birds
That's just the most recent one.
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>> “Well, I’ve been to many zoos, national parks, and African game preserves. Not a dinosaur in sight, regardless of size.” <<
Essentially nonsense.
Taro lizzard for example used to be about 500 pounds judging by the fossils from a few thousand years ago, but they’re rarely even 10 pounds now.
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The only ice age there ever was came from the hot oceans of the Genesis flood, and was already melting 4000 years ago.
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Australia had dinosaurs roaming around in 1917?
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Why not? We have plenty of them wandering around the halls of Congress, even now.
What exactly is a "taro lizard"?
Take a hammer to the vandals.
Um....no. There have been ice ages going back billions of years.
A small reptile with a knack for telling fortunes.
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The “years” didn’t even begin until about 6000 years ago.
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You can’t because someone stole the handle...
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You have one? :0)
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Given that the Solar System is over 4 billion years old, that seems....unlikely.
Not that I know of...but my 300 year old attic is like an archaeological dig so there might be one up there hiding in a corner, feasting on squirrels.
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1) I’d like to see the bastard(s) caught, convicted and serving time for destroying property.
2) While I’m not happy about this being destroyed, I’m pretty sure that some paleontologist made a mold of that print (or many very similar to it), so another one can be put on the same spot. Yes, it is 2nd best to the real thing, but only a very few will know the difference.
Jerk. I guess you can away with crap like that against Christians -
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Careful! They have a nasty disposition!
(but they do eat big bugs)
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