Dinosaur tracks: Prehistoric chase scene reconstructed

[dipsydoodle]

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the scene of a dinosaur chase - preserved in the mud of an ancient river bed in Texas.

The tracks were left by two dinosaurs more than 110 million years ago.

Seventy years ago, the whole trackway was removed from the river bed and divided into blocks, which were moved to different locations for study.

Some of these blocks have been lost, but the team managed to use old photographs to reconstruct the site.

The research is published in the journal Plos One.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26851336 includes video

[alsame]

1. Awesome. nt

[AleksS]

2. I went a few years ago to see the tracks

I went a few years ago to see the tracks in Paluxy. They're super cool, and you can get incredibly close (at the time there was just a pink ribbon tied to stakes around the tracks to keep people out of them. )

Mind blowing to imagine the sheer scale of the history you're standing next to, the species that have arisen, and gone extinct, and spread around the world, and disappeared. It makes you realize in a temporal way the tiny-ness of humanity on such a scale, like Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" makes you realize the spatial tiny-ness of humanity.

Interestingly, just a stone's throw away is the Creation Museum, insisting that those are the tracks of the dinosaurs Jesus and Mary rode to church on Sundays...

[exboyfil]

3. The missing blocks

were the ones with the human footprints in them. It is obviously a conspiracy spanning over 75 years.

[tclambert]

4. Did they knock over a fruit cart?

Everybody in Hollywood knows a good chase scene has to include knocking over fruit cart.

[MynameisBlarney]

5. Indeed.

It also helps to barely miss a woman pushing a baby carriage or a homeless person pushing a shopping cart full of junk.

[greiner3]

6. Or a homeless person pushing a baby carriage full of aluminium cans for recycling.

What was that movie?

[MynameisBlarney]

7. Dunno...

But I need to see it.

[allan01]

8. re:Dinosaur tracks: Prehistoric chase scene reconstructed

had to go into safari to read the article . even when i found the url for it stupid ff wouldnt display it the usual file not found nonsense . otherwise thanks for the very interisting read