Dinosaur and Mammal Tracks Found Together

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | February 1, 2018 | David F. Coppedge

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Dinosaur and Mammal Tracks Found Together

February 1, 2018 | David F. Coppedge

In what is being called the mother lode of Cretaceous tracks, mammals, dinosaurs and pterosaurs left their prints in a table-sized rock.

Of all places: at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, a property representing the cutting edge of human technology, dinosaurs left their mark. Ray Stanford was dropping off his wife at work when he noticed an unusual rock outcrop. As an amateur paleontologist, he looked and saw a dinosaur track, so he began digging. Soon he had an 8′ x 3′ slab of rock that was covered with tracks of all kinds, one of the most densely-concentrated trackways in the world. Tracks of stegosaur and nodosaur were found, but that’s not all, Laura Geggel reports for Live Science:

Of the 70 prints, at least 26 belong to squirrel- and raccoon-size mammals, the researchers said. This finding is remarkable, they added, given that it’s incredibly rare to find fossilized trackways belonging to dinosaur-age mammals. Until now, there were only four scientifically named mammal trackways from the Mesozoic: one from the Jurassic period and three from the Cretaceous. (Just like with new species, researchers can give scientific names to animal trackways.)

[gleeaikin]

You are right, cutting the guys off will definitely get their attention. ;-)

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[21twelve]

I like the studies done at the Custer Battle Field. Finding bullets, arrows, buttons, etc. and trying to recreate the battle.