An interesting item
Posted by epgrondine at 02:26, 07 Feb 2010http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/300...
Apparently no one knows exactly what was happening or exactly when it was happening yet
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22 November 2004
1 week 6 days
I thought that some species are believed to have lived in herds. Would it not be normal for them to travel between locations as a group?
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
36 min 35 sec
I suppose if I wanted to determine if the dinosaurs were marching at a 'normal' pace, or running in a panic (from a predator, or a natural event) I would examine the distance between one footprint and the next, and how deep they are —when you run, you leave a different impression on the terrain than when you're having a calm stroll.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
1 week 6 days
yes you would want to look at stride length and heel-versus-toe imprints.
Also it might be interesting to see if any of them stopped occasionally, or if they all just marched/ran without delays.
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6 September 2009
1 year 30 weeks
I wonder what the land was like back then, as my first instant "gut-reaction" would be to suggest maybe they were running from a fire of some sort?
1 May 2004
40 min 42 sec
For the footprints to be preserved, generally a layer of mud or soft earth containing the prints has to be quickly buried in a material that fills those prints without disruption, like more mud or volcanic ash.
A flood or volcanic eruption would be a great reason for lots of different dinosaurs to travel in the same direction and explain the fossilized prints. Unfortunately, the article doesn't really give up details of the type of rock involved.