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Large ornithopod footprints found in Mexico
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26-03-2012 8:13pm#1The article is in Spanish as usual, but the really irritating part is that they somehow mispelled "hadrosaur" as "agrosaur". :pac: Yet another case of reporters who hear something wrong and don´t even try to do some research.
The footprints are 60 cms long and were found in the northern state of Sonora; they were left around 70 million years ago.
No word about what kind of hadrosaur may have left the tracks; Kritosaurus, Hypacrosaurus and "Lambeosaurus" laticaudus are all known from Mexico and lived at about the right time.
http://www.elmanana.com.mx/notas.asp?id=278829
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Based on that picture, you'd imagine such obvious prints would have been stumbled across before... or did they have to clear off a bunch of rubble first?
I don´t know... probably since you can see the rubble around in the pic.
On a second look on that picture. It looks sort of false. Maybe it is merely my own impression, but they look like someone made them.
Sorry to be so cynical and I ask forgiveness if I am wrong, but the word "hoax" comes to mind.
That's a rather lame hoax then, as there's nothing very special about dinosaur footprints in northern Mexico; they've been found by the thousands.0 -
That's a rather lame hoax then, as there's nothing very special about dinosaur footprints in northern Mexico; they've been found by the thousands.
Yes, that is true, I am not saying it IS a hoax, merely they look sort of manufactured in the photo. Almost as though someone put them into a new foundation for a wall or something. No offense was intended on the OP Adam. Just voicing my own personal opinion after looking at the picture. I accept that they are probably real, just that to me they don't LOOK real.
Sorry.
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Yes, that is true, I am not saying it IS a hoax, merely they look sort of manufactured in the photo. Almost as though someone put them into a new foundation for a wall or something. No offense was intended on the OP Adam. Just voicing my own personal opinion after looking at the picture. I accept that they are probably real, just that to me they don't LOOK real.
Sorry.
No probs, I'm not offended at all :> In fact, I have seen fossils that are real yet look kinda fake, like something one could create in his garage or something XD0 -
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