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Stampeding dinosaurs were actually swimming

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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:50 PM

Fossilized track marks from a stampede of dinosaurs in Australia actually may have come from swimming animals, new research suggests.

The finding, published in the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, upends the traditional interpretation of the world's only dinosaur stampede.

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Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:47 PM

Which is odd, as it seriously looks like the herbivores were attacked by a therapod.

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Posted 24 January 2013 - 04:56 PM

I like dinosaurs. :)

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Posted 25 January 2013 - 10:03 AM

4000 in an area the size of a basketball court? How can they be sure it wasn't 3 chasing each other for a laugh




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