#dinosaur tracks

[so-i-did-this-thing]

One of the wild things about now living in a region where the ground isn't all sandy soil is that sometimes... there are just dinosaur tracks??? at the side of the road???!

[sepdet]

Do you ever think how lucky it is that bones can fossilize?

Because otherwise we'd just have tons of mysterious trackways of ginormous dinosaur feet with no idea what the fuck left those huge, heavy impressions in old mud.

Dino tracks in Spain, Wikimedia Commons

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Dinosaur tracks at the Mill Canyon Tracksite in Moab, Utah.

Top two are medium-sized theropods.

Bottom left are sauropod tracks.

And the bottom right is a large-sized theropod, alongside sauropod tracks.

I've visited this place many times and it never fails to make me happy.

[the-forest-library]

Theropod and Ankylosaurus Footprints - Mill Canyon, Utah

[mindblowingscience]

Researchers discover thousands of dinosaur footprints in Alaska | CBC Radio

Dustin Stewart has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was nine years old. But he never dreamed he'd grow up to study 70-million-year-old

Dustin Stewart has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was nine years old. But he never dreamed he'd grow up to study 70-million-year-old footprints in Alaska. Scientists have found dinosaur tracks in the Denali National Park before, but never anything on this scale. Stewart, a paleontologist and graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), says there are thousands of newly found prints crawling up vertical walls "like Spider-Man."  "Seeing that for the first time, oh, we were on the next level. Unbelievable. Everyone was excited," he told As it Happens guest host Paul Hunter. "[They were like] 'Oh, my God, look at that one; look at that one.'" 

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Footprints.

Dinosaur tracks in Moenave sandstone at Cameron Trading Post. This rock slab was used at the entrance to the original structure constructed in 1916, now used as the trading post's Native American art museum and gallery.

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Another thing I wanted to see at the Geological Museum was a follow-up to this post about the dinosaur tracks in Gagaty Sołtykowskie:

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Part two of the Gagaty trip! All right, so I come out to where the old clay and jet quarry used to be until the late 70s, and in the sandsto

Once again, the best ones were taken to the museum, and here they are:

The reconstructed dinosaur is a Dilophosaur, his name is Dyzio, and we do NOT know for sure if it was the dino that left the tracks in Gagaty. This dino has only been found in Arizona. However, the tracks and the impression of feathers found nearby are similar enough that the current hypothesis is that it was the same one.

As you can see, Dyzio is feathered and very cute.

The track above was also found in the Gagaty Soltykowskie quarry, and it’s much bigger, belonging to a large allosaur.

[jmpphoto]

Long Stride by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Long Stride Dinosaur Tracks Moenave Dinosaur Tracks Tuba City, Arizona These dinosaur tracks were formed in the early Jurassic period, approximately 200 million years ago and have been verified by paleontologists from Northern Arizona University.