Cast of dinosaur footprint, over 130 million years old, at Gantheaume Point, Broome, Western Australia. Photo source: ©© Lin Padgham
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Dinosaur footprints have been spotted on an Australian beach, in the main tourist area of Cable beach.
However, the footprints are not a new find and were acknowledged by indigenous Australians centuries earlier…
Read Full Article, BBC News (09-06-2016)
Oldest Fossils Discovered On Oldest Shoreline Known On Earth; University Of Oxford (08-22-2011)
Earth’s oldest fossils have been found in a remote part of coastal Western Australia, very well preserved between the quartz sand grains of the oldest beach or shoreline known on Earth, in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks. Meanwhile, world famous 130 million old fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-km stretch of Western Australia’s coastline, are now under threat from a proposed natural gas facility…
Dinosaur footprints threatened by natural gas project, Western Australia, Nature News
Fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-kilometre stretch of Western Australia’s coastline are under threat from a proposed natural gas facility, say paleontologists…
