"New Evidence from Dinosaur Footsteps..."

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

I haven't seen this one posted yet.  Go to:
http://www.uaf.edu/univrel/media/FY99/013.html
for the complete story.

NEW EVIDENCE FROM DINOSAUR FOOTSTEPS SHOW MASSIVE 
HERDS ONCE ROAMED NORTHERN ALASKA  (9/11/98)

"Fairbanks, Alaska - A joint University of Alaska Fairbanks/Anchorage 
expedition team has discovered a significant variety of single dinosaur
footprints and sets of prints, or trackways, on Alaska's North Slope." 

Faculty and students from the University of Alaska Museum ...collected 
casts and impressions of five different types of dinosaurs in the foothills 
of Alaska's Brooks Range during the summer 1998 field season. 
A total of 13 new track sites were located..."

"The presence of the newly discovered tracks, trackways and trampled 
surfaces are at least 25-million years older than the well-known dinosaur 
bone beds farther to the north. This discovery provides the first direct 
evidence that dinosaurs were numerous and diverse in the Arctic 90-110 
million years ago." 
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"The largest track is 18 inches long and contains three large toe 
impressions made by a carnivorous dinosaur, possibly a member of the 
tyrannosaur family."
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" 'The most surprising thing was finding four-toed tracks suggestive of 
armored or horned dinosaurs,' said Gangloff. 'We also found tracks that 
showed the pebbly texture of the animal's skin, which are extremely rare.' " 

Mary
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