Skeptics Try to Shoot Holes in Dinosaur-Track Theory

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A grouping of sandstone pockmarks in northern Arizona heralded last month as dinosaur footprints by geologists and reported in the news worldwide is actually just another example of erosion's unique handiwork in the area, according to a group of skeptical paleontologists who recently visited the site.

Although the University of Utah research announcing the find was published in the October issue of the international paleontology journal Palaios, paleontologists in Arizona, St. George and Wyoming were publicly skeptical and privately incredulous that the collection of potholes was being touted as dinosaur tracks.

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Skeptics Try to Shoot Holes in Dinosaur-Track Theory

While there is plenty of evidence that the creatures roamed that section of the Colorado Plateau 190 million years ago, a visit to the site identified in the U. study two weeks ago has all but convinced the paleontologists th...

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