Thousands of dinosaur tracks discovered

[Skywizard]

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A veritable treasure trove of dinosaur footprints has been found along the side of Alaska's Yukon river.

A research team exploring the region came across thousands of fossilized dinosaur tracks along the shoreline. Consisting of scientists from the University of Alaska's Museum of the North, the team traveled over 500 miles down the Tanana and Yukon rivers and returned with more than 900kg of footprint fossils.

"We found dinosaur footprints by the scores on literally every outcrop we stopped at," said researcher Paul McCarthy. "I've seen dinosaur footprints in Alaska now in rocks from southwest Alaska, the North Slope and Denali National Park in the Interior, but there aren't many places where footprints occur in such abundance."

The discovery of an area so rich in fossil footprints is very rare and is being hailed as highly significant. The prints seem to come from a wide variety of different dinosaurs and are so abundant that it's possible to come across up to 50 specimens in as little as ten minutes.

"We found a great diversity of dinosaur types, evidence of an extinct ecosystem we never knew existed," said museum curator Pat Druckenmiller.

Source: http://www.livescience.com/39921-dinosaur-tracks-alaska-yukon.html


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skywizard

[sirdipswitch]

Lets see now, what didn't they say? They didn't say that the earth would need to rotate 90 degrees to put Alaska on the equater, making it tropical, and great for lots of Dinosaurs, to make lots of tracks in the mud a long time ago.

But then... I didn't read the whole artical, so they could have said that. hmm. yep.

[Flash]

Or earth had to have a straight axis

Or methane gaz were proeminent

Or oxygen levels were at 40%

Or eath was lighter

The earth has not always been cold at poles. I remember reading, when I was a kid, (gosh, my interest in fringe stuff really dates back!!) that orange trees were found frozen in ice in Antartica.

[Limor Wolf]

Very fascinating, Thank you Skywizard. There is no comparison of course, but almost as fascinating as this discovery is the Giant footprint in South Africa -

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Around 100 million years prior to that of the Alaskan dinosaurs

One is formally recognized by earth's history, the other is not.


As far-fetched as it may sound they both may belong indirectly to some of our ancestors, at least partly. Please don't ask me to explain : )

[Tesseract]

The earth has seen numerous 'greenhouse earth' periods - in which there was very little or no ice. There has also been a 'snowball earth' period (according to some) where everything was frozen. There is some debate about what caused both of these types of conditions to come to an end. The ending of snowball earth, if it ever happened, is especially difficult to explain because the whiteness of the Earth's surface during such a period is not capable of significantly absorbing sunlight.

[Ellisa]

I too, Flash, remember learning stuff like that about Antarctica. Also I think we were told the dinosaurs were VERY rare, and when I first came to Australia (more than 50 years ago) it was considered that Australia had had few 'real' dinosaurs. Now they seem plentiful all over the planet. Just down the coast from where I live there is an area called Dinosaur Coast by the locals. There are heaps of fossils being discovered there, including some footprints of small dinosaurs. Like you Flash this was an interest that has stayed with me for years.

Thanks for such an interesting post Skywizard.

[conk]

Lets see now, what didn't they say? They didn't say that the earth would need to rotate 90 degrees to put Alaska on the equater, making it tropical, and great for lots of Dinosaurs, to make lots of tracks in the mud a long time ago.

But then... I didn't read the whole artical, so they could have said that. hmm. yep.

Check out the theory about the Earth's crust moving around. What was once on the Equator may have rotated to the North.