Posted on 06/01/2009 9:27:06 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Experts are baffled over the discovery of fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks that have been found in both north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast, The Associated Press reported.
Neil Clark, a paleontologist at the University of Glasgow, has not been able to identify any differences between the two sets of 170 million-year-old tracks even after a series of painstaking measurements and statistical analysis.
He told AP that since the footprints in Wyoming and Scotland are so similar, they may have been produced by a very similar kind of dinosaur, if not the same species.
Paleontologists have never been able to say for certain that the same dinosaur species was responsible for fossil tracks discovered at separate locations, much less thousands of miles apart.
But now, using three-dimensional mapping technology that is revolutionizing the study of dinosaur tracks, American scientists are preparing to scrutinize the tracks further.
The technology will enable scientists to make detailed, intercontinental comparisons without leaving their offices.
Brent Breithaupt, a University of Wyoming paleontologist and head of the school's Geological Museum, said they hope to help establish a huge virtual archive that can be shared worldwide.
"Tracks can be looked at in three dimensions on computer screens and can be rotated around by various researchers - and can be compared," he said.
However, he doubts that the same dinosaur species made the Wyoming and Scotland tracks.
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Why would he doubt it was the same species?
Other meetings gave us the giraffe, the Shroud of Turin and the Loch Ness Monster. Obama is probably the work of a meeting on a day when everyone was in a bad mood.
170 million years isn’t too far off from the breakup of the super-continent Pangaea. Perhaps there were still land bridges between North America and Europe and/or Africa? Also, the footprints may not be of the same species of dinosaur. It isn’t possible to absolutely determine species from footprints.
Check it’s toe prints..
There is a ton of solid scientific evidence that the world’s land masses were joined in a supercontinent, not just once during Pangea, but several times before that. This isn’t man-made global warming malarkey we’re talking about here.
Dragons?
And it is still growing.
“Experts are baffled over the discovery of fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks that have been found in both north-central Wyoming and on Scotland’s coast, The Associated Press reported.”
There’s the problem right there. The Associated Press reported. You can’t believe anything from the Associated Press, even if it’s true. I sincerely doubt that the scientists are “baffled.” They know almost as much as Freepers do.
A world with Pangaea must have experienced massive tides.
Most likely true.
The Moon was much closer then.
Did life exist on the ‘surface’ of the supercontinent?
If so, then life in the ocean must have developed after life on land.
Because there were no oceans at first.
Not until the waters of the deep were unleashed, like it says in the Bible.
Yep. Back then, you really didn't want to go out during a full moon. It was pretty crazy.
I'm afraid I have no information on that. I'll have to look it up and get back to you. ;^)
I simply found the two videos interesting, especially the second link I posted. I have no interest in participating in an "old earth vs new earth" debate. Whatever God did is whatever God did. I can't pretend to know.
Given the fact that humans migrated over most all of Earth, it seems to me that a flourtishing species of dinosaur made it around much of Earth, too.
“Because there were no oceans at first.”
Your source, please.
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