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 ...
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Obviously the confused paleontologist won’t know the difference, and he’ll just make up a cute story about it and get a hefty federal grant to tide him over for a few months..
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Soros funded no doubt!
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Not muzzies; rather liberals and BLM claiming that the dinosaurs were racist.
I don’t go up there unless I absolutely have to....it’s creepy.
Everyone who has ever lived here left behind bits of their lives.
From 18th spectacles, old fountain pens, deadly looking ‘remedy’ bottles, a Nazi belt buckle, to a massive collection of “The Watchtower”, it’s freaky up there.
The little gypsy lizards can have the place to themselves.
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Much of that would sell for decent money on Ebay.
I'll be happy to take it off your hands....
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Do you know why they are smaller now than they were a few thousand years ago?
I'm sure you know not all Christians subscribe to Young Earth Creation nonsense.
I thought it was funny.
Yes, but most actual Christians don’t post blasphemous images either.
Your problem. It isn’t funny unless you’re a Democrat.
Can you please explain how that image is blasphemous?
Haven’t been to a church for a while, have you?
[[Given that the Solar System is over 4 billion years old, that seems....unlikely. ]]
It’s 4 billion now? A couple months ago it was 6 billion, a year ago it was 2 billion, tomorrow it will be 5 billion- seems that someone’s ‘billionometer’ is off by, well, billions of years- I can see discrepancies of maybe a few years, and still think the measuring methods are accurate, but by billions? What’s a few billion between friends?
Never mind.
And please ignore my last post to you as well. I have no interest in hearing/reading anything you have to say/write.
Have a nice day.
I thought it was funny also-——lighten up.
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Can you send a link for that? Why do believe that is true?
I simply said that it was over 4 billion years. As for the Earth itself, it's currently dated to approximately 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years. An age of roughly 4.5 billion years has actually been accepted since the 1950's.
Science refines results over time. That's the way it works.
lol- yeah, works so well they keep adjusting back and forth by billions- I see some new figure has it at 13.8 billion- The whole point is that it’s just opinion- off by billions- depending on who you ask- not very accurate- ‘refining’ by a few billion isn’t exactly science- it’s conjecture based on opinion that ignores or dismisses counter evidence-
You seem to be confusing the age of the Earth (roughly 4.5 billion years) with the age of the universe (roughly 13.8 billion years). They're not the same thing.
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