Dinosaur News about dinosaur fossils and findings

Dinosaur news and dinosaur fossils provides a selection of recent interesting dinosaur news on the net.

Check this out! A new, but old account of an encounter with a beast in Chesapeake Bay, USA, submitted to this site by Willie R. Morton.

And Read Dr William Gibbons’ account of two recent expeditions to Cameroon, in which he cites solid eye-witness reports of Apatosaurus and Diplodocus.

Check this out too! A website by Dr William Gibbons, the Creation explorer and his team. It includes news of future expeditions, speaking engagements, information about Kelvin College, a school for extension studies, and a page of relevant and succinct Creation articles—‘Awesome Articles’. There is also a map of ‘Living dinosaurs and other relic species worldwide'. Dr Gibbons is Professor of Creation Science at Canada Christian College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Go to www.creationgeneration.org

Huge display of dinosaur tracks revealed in Bolivia

In 1994, while walking around a cement
factory in southern Bolivia, Klaus Schutt discovered a limestone wall about 25,000 square meters in area showing many dinosaur tracks. A few years later, in 1998, a scientific team lead by Swiss palaeontologist Christian Meyer investigated the wall, and declared it to be the largest site of dinosaur tracks found so far.

The immense Bolivian site 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 said to be made during the second half of the Cretaceous period. So impressive is the number of tracks that the uplifted plane has been called a dinosaur dance floor.

While the evolutionary view of geology suggests the Cretaceous age, we would suggest that the global flood as recorded in the Bible could easily explain the tracks. For more photos of the tracks, visit this discussion site.

Elasmosaur fossil found in Alberta (May 2007)

A well-preserved elasmosaur has been found in a gemstone quarry in Alberta, Canada. The elasmosaur is a type of plesiosaur, an acquatic reptile with stiff, paddle-like limbs. Palaeontologist Don Henderson of the Roy Tyrrell Museum said the fossil was found in the Bearpaw Shale, a formation that stretches from Canada to Monanta, USA. It was estimated to have been 12 metres long, seven metres of which would have been the neck. It took three weeks for the company operating the quarry to take out three slabs of rock weighing over 9,000 tons that could contain the whole skeleton. It could be two years before the fossil is exposed from its rock casing. In June, 2007 the well-known palaeontolgist Phil Currie said a bone bed had been found in Edmonton that is one of the richest dinosaur bone beds he had ever seen.

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Loch Ness team focuses on Norwegian lake (July 2002)

A scientific team which had looked unsuccessfully for the Loch Ness monster turned its attention to Lake Roemsjoen in south-western Norway. The most recent sighting was in 2001, when a witness threw a stone from the shore at a large black animal, which slipped away into the water. Earlier reports go back to the 18the century, with claims of sudden waves and turbulence spooking the locals and inspiring myths. A bus driver who saw the creature in 1976 described the Norwegian Nessie as ‘10m long, with humps, making 50cm waves.’ Others have described the creature as having the same patterned scales like a crocodile.

Jan Sundberg, head of the science team, spent last (northern) spring (2001) in Scotland scouring Loch Ness with high-tech radar and sonar equipment. The cryptozoologist told the Sunday Herald that although his time in Scotland did not produce the much-hoped-for Nessie, he was confident that the Roemsjoen would offer a better catch. However, no great success has been reported.

Norway has more than its fair share of unexplained sightings of flapping underwater beasts . Altogether, there have been recorded sightings in 50 lakes across the country .

Sundberg believes the Roemsjoen could hold valuable clues about the existence of Nessie-type creatures around the world. ‘This is a new lake for us, so we are very hopeful. Our intention is not to catch it, but simply to listen and hopefully get an image of it. We may return next year with more equipment and an even larger search team if we are not successful now.’

Lake Roemsjoen at 15km long, is considered a small stomping ground for a potential sea monster. Espen Samuelsen, a 20-year-old computer science student, is leading the expedition with sonar equipment on loan from the Swedish navy, which was previously used to track Soviet submarines.

He said the team has experienced some interesting results already. ‘A few days ago we heard some very loud noises which sounded like oars hitting the water from a boat, but when we looked out the window there was no boat in sight . We think it was the creature and that it has large fins to push itself through the water.’

Samuelsen believes that a Norwegian monster would not give the area the same kind of tourism boost that Scotland experiences . Around 250,000 people travel to Loch Ness every year but the 700 residents who live in Romskog, the town closest to the lake, are decidedly cautious on that matter. He said: '‘They don't want to talk about it or come forward with what they have seen.

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T-Rex could outrun professional footballer

The renowned and probably fierce T-Rex would have been able to chase down the professional footballer, David Bechkam, according to new research (2007). The University of Manchester study used a supercomputer to predict that T-Rex could reach running speeds of up to 29 km/h, fractionally quicker than a sportsman such as a professional footballer. The supercomputer calculated the running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs that varied in size from a 3 kg Compsognathus to a six-tonne Tyrannosaurus. The computer found that Compsognathus could rech speeds of up to 64.36 km/h—8 km faster than the estimate of the fastest living animal on two legs, the ostrich.

In 1934 there were reports of farmers near Syracuse, in Sicily, being menaced by a huge and unusual snake that looked much like a dinosaur. Hunting parties were organised, and it was killed.—Dragons, a Natural History by Dr Karl Shuker, 1995, Aurum Press Ltd, London.

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The painting, like most others, and even the movie Jurassic Park does not show dermal frills, which are a feature of dragon drawings and sculptures. Dermal frills, not unlike the frills of some lizards and even the common rooster's comb, have been observed by people in Cameroon on Mokele M'bembe.

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