Friday, October 31, 2008

tracks!

The recent find of Dinosaur tracks along the Utah/Arizona border has researchers in awe. Over one thousand tracks have been found in a single area. 

"There must have been more than one kind of dinosaur there," said researcher Marjorie Chan, professor and chair of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah. "It was a place that attracted a crowd, kind of like a dance floor." 

Geologist Winston Seiler with some of the dinosaur tracks in northern Arizona, which are so abundant that the researchers refer to the site as a "dinosaur dance floor." 

While the site is covered in sand dunes now, the researchers say the tracks are within what was a network of wet, low watering holes between the dunes. In fact, the tracks provide more evidence of wet intervals during the Early Jurassic Period, when the U.S. Southwest was covered with a field of sand dunes larger than the Sahara Desert.

Study of the find will help Paleontologists to gain a better understanding of the dinosaurs that once lived there. 

A scientist that almost looks like garit. If he would have gone to school. 

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