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'T.rex footprint' found by British dinosaur hunter: report
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 10/09/07 | AFP

Posted on 10/09/2007 5:02:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

LONDON (AFP) - A Britain-based palaeontologist believes he has found the world's first known Tyrannosaurus rex footprint, he told a BBC television documentary Wednesday.

Phil Manning said he has high hopes the one square metre (about 11 square feet) print, from the famed Hell Creek area of the northwest US state of Montana, is from the flesh-eating giant, although 100 percent certainty is impossible.

"People have been trying to find T.rex tracks for a hundred years," Manning, who specialises in Jurassic and Cretaceous period dinosaur tracks, told the BBC.

"Unless you come across an animal dead in its tracks you can't say for definite what left them.

"However with information available about the numbers of T.rex in the rocks of the Hell Creek formation, it is the closest we have got so far to discovering a tyrannosaur track."

Manning, whose work still needs to be peer-reviewed, suggested the 67-million-year-old print "could only" be one of the two species previously found in Hell Creek, Nanotyrannus or its bigger relative Tyrannosaurus rex.

"The size of the footprint at 76 centimetres (30 inches) in length suggests it is more likely to be the latter," said the academic, from the University of Manchester, northwest England.

"There is no such thing as a truth in science, so for us this is as close as we get to what I think is a fantastic find."

Tyrannosaurus rex, which stood about 20 foot (six metres) tall, 40 foot long and weighed about seven tonnes, was one of the last dinosaurs to roam the earth before the entire species was wiped out about 65 million years ago.

All T.rex remains have been found in the Hell Creek area. Manning located the giant footprint last year.

Angela Milner, associate keeper of palaeontology at London's Natural History Museum, told AFP she was interested in comparing Manning's discovery with one found in New Mexico in 1993 that was given the name "Tyrannosaurus pillmorei".

"That print was about four centimetres longer... and is also thought to have been made by a T.rex," she said.

"It is never possible to be certain of the animal that made fossil footprints as they do not die conveniently at the end of their tracks.

"However both these prints occur in rocks of the right age, they definitely were made by large carnivorous dinosaurs -- and the only one that was that large enough to leave such a huge footprint was Tyrannosaurus rex."


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A woman inspects the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur sculpture. A Britain-based palaeontologist believes he has found the world's first known Tyrannosaurus rex footprint, he told a BBC television documentary Wednesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Latz)


1 posted on 10/09/2007 5:02:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Coming or going??


2 posted on 10/09/2007 5:06:21 PM PDT by Spok
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To: NormsRevenge

3 posted on 10/09/2007 5:06:29 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Dinosaur footprint stories need pictures.


4 posted on 10/09/2007 5:08:24 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot

I don’t see one for this ‘footprint’ out there. If someone does, please post.


5 posted on 10/09/2007 5:11:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoR)
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To: NormsRevenge
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6 posted on 10/09/2007 5:12:53 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: 7thson

Who needs TV when you have T. Rex?


7 posted on 10/09/2007 5:13:43 PM PDT by null and void (Lib-uh-rulz can't foresee even the clearest consequences to their actions...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Dinosaur Hunter...I bet THAT looks good on a business card!


8 posted on 10/09/2007 5:14:51 PM PDT by NordP (If illegal alien = "undocumented immigrant" then drug dealer = "unlicensed pharmacist")
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To: NormsRevenge; spanalot

9 posted on 10/09/2007 5:15:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker (Democrats are phony Americans)
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To: spanalot

A dinosaur walked this way 67 million years ago

Dino hunt: From Manchester to Montana - BBC News

BBC reporter Jacey Normand travelled to the Badlands of Montana, US, in July. She accompanied Manchester palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning in his quest to find a preserved footprint left by the dinosaur T. rex.

10 posted on 10/09/2007 5:18:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoR)
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To: NormsRevenge

good for him - pretty exciting stuff!


11 posted on 10/09/2007 5:18:38 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge

“BBC reporter Jacey Normand travelled to the Badlands of Montana, US,
in July. She accompanied Manchester palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning in
his quest to find a preserved footprint left by the dinosaur T. rex.”

Lucky “Dr. Phil”...wish I had known that all it takes to get a
BBC info babe to come visit...
is to say “I’m looking for dinosaur footprints in the middle
of nowhere.”

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12 posted on 10/09/2007 5:25:58 PM PDT by VOA
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To: John Jorsett
It was this guys footprint
13 posted on 10/09/2007 5:28:59 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: LibWhacker

That footprint looks pretty fragile, I hope they keep the location within the scientific community, Yahoos could destroy that with a careless pass of a quad runner.


14 posted on 10/09/2007 5:34:08 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ No more miller brewing products, pass it on....)
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To: NormsRevenge
Gimmie a break. Bogus from the get go.
15 posted on 10/09/2007 5:34:20 PM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: LibWhacker

Why are the mud cracks under the fossil?


16 posted on 10/09/2007 6:32:06 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: VOA
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I said girl I'm just a vampire for your love

I'm gonna suck you

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17 posted on 10/09/2007 6:48:37 PM PDT by Oratam
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