Arizona/Utah border yields dinosaur footprints

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Arizona/Utah border yields dinosaur footprints

Post by lucky1 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:26 am

Very cool discovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7680444.stm

Rather than a wetter environment than today, the article says:
probably a watering hole during the Early Jurassic Period, when the US south-west was covered with a field of sand dunes larger than the Sahara Desert
:shock:
Barb



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