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General / Off-Topic Giant dinosaur footprint discovered in Bolivia by tourist guide
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That's because they were massive, but more importantly were very social animals, spoke fluent English, and developed the brewing of ale and smoking of pipe-weed.
Never heard about the pipe-weed part before. I'll store that tidbit and whip it out at my next fancy dinner party.
Couldn't it just be a rock of that shape...or just an erosion? Oo How do they know it's definitely a footprint. There's always a good possibility that rock just happened to have this shape, especially on the surface with all the weather shaping them over the centuries.
Very, very unlikely.
The rock has that shape because a dinosaur stepped on it when it was squelchy mud, then it hardened.
Yes, I understand the way the possible footprint was left by a dinosaur. However, I still think that there's good chance it might just look that way. Rocks on the surface can have all kinds of crazy shapes. Look at the terrain around, I'm sure if they look good enough they can find a dozen holes in there that kind of look like footprints.
There's not a good chance it might just look that way. There's an extremely tiny chance... miniscule... microscopic.
The indentation is symmetrical. It looks like many other similar indentations made by similar (but smaller) creatures. It's the right type of rock to have once been soft enough to be impressed with a footprint. It's about the right age to have been stepped on by that kind of creature.
It's not just a case of a guy looking at a rock and saying "That looks like a dinosaur footprint". There are different people from different disciplines all looking at the same thing in different ways, taking measurements, doing the calculations, checking their results with their colleagues, checking other possibilities... These scientists don't want to ruin their reputations by saying something silly: they're quite sure about it, because they've checked the measurements and the calculations, checked with other scientists, and they all came up with the same result.
There probably are other similar footprints in that area. Footprints usually come in pairs.
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There's not a good chance it might just look that way. There's an extremely tiny chance... miniscule... microscopic.
The indentation is symmetrical. It looks like many other similar indentations made by similar (but smaller) creatures. It's the right type of rock to have once been soft enough to be impressed with a footprint. It's about the right age to have been stepped on by that kind of creature.
It's not just a case of a guy looking at a rock and saying "That looks like a dinosaur footprint". There are different people from different disciplines all looking at the same thing in different ways, taking measurements, doing the calculations, checking their results with their colleagues, checking other possibilities... These scientists don't want to ruin their reputations by saying something silly: they're quite sure about it, because they've checked the measurements and the calculations, checked with other scientists, and they all came up with the same result.
There probably are other similar footprints in that area. Footprints usually come in pairs.
I understand there's process behind it, obviously claims aren't based on just looking at it. I was just using what is ultimately the most powerful scientific tool out there - questioning and being in doubt
Unless you try to prove that something is wrong and fail, you can't say it's right.
I understand there's process behind it, obviously claims aren't based on just looking at it. I was just using what is ultimately the most powerful scientific tool out there - questioning and being in doubt
Agreed!
I understand there's process behind it, obviously claims aren't based on just looking at it. I was just using what is ultimately the most powerful scientific tool out there - questioning and being in doubt
I would guess that foot print to be approximately 6,000 years old.
I cannot explain however, how it survived the great flood.
I conclude, it is a fake!
Love a bit of dinosaur news... haven't heard much about them since... probably Jurassic World
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Yeah but that's oooooooold