Sunday, May 10, 2009

Overlapping Fossilized Dinosaur and Human Footprints

On my living room wall is a picture of fossil footprints of a human being overlapping that of a dinosaur.  This picture used to be hung in one of my examination rooms of my erstwhile podiatry practice.  This picture is significant because the fossil footprints are in limestone, and had to be made within twelve hours of each other because that is the time it takes for the sediment that becomes limestone to harden into rock.  
false color rendition of -3b with javascript rollovers
The picture is from an archaelogical site at the Paluxy River in Texas. This fossil footprint (-3B) is in the bed of the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas. It is one of a 14 track sequence called the Taylor Trail. The tracks are consistently 11.5" in length with consistently alternating rights and lefts. They are among and, in this case, within dinosaur tracks.
Since the limestone hardens in 12 hours, it is clear that the human and dinosaur lived at the same time.  Go to
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm   to see enhancements so that you can see the footprints better. 

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