Meanwhile, back in the real world where you can’t buy your lunch with a song, real discoveries about dinosaurs were being made and discussed with great interest…
In 1994, while walking around a cement factory in southern Bolivia, Klaus Schütt discovered a limestone wall with a shear size of 25’000 square meters literally covered by dinosaur tracks. A few years later, in 1998, a scientific team lead by Swiss paleontologist Christian Meyer investigated the wall, and proved it was “the largest site of dinosaur tracks found so far”.
The immense Bolivian site (Cal Orko) is the rock face of an outcropping on a slant of 73 degrees, 80 meters high and 1.2 km long. There are more than 5,000 tracks of 294 different dinosaurs made during the second half of the Cretaceous period.
There is such an impressive amount of tracks that some of the researchers said this place seemed to be a dinosaurs’ dancefloor.
More photos and info on this neat find are here.
(via digg, fogonazos 2, dinosaur.org)
Hold on a minute. I think I know what Palin meant when she said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks.â€
Yeah. I’m still a stinker.
