tagged w/ Dinosaur Footprints
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The world's largest dinosaur footprint has quite possibly been found in James Price Point, the area where a huge gas hub has been proposed to be built. The discovery of the footprint will undergo peer review before the finding is finalised, but it looks to be the largest dinosaur footprint ever found.
The large dinosaur footprint is just one of a huge number already found in an area where unique dinosaur tracks are uncovered by the oceans tide. Found in limestone that stretches for 200km along the Kimberly coast, the footprints are also a foundation for local traditional owners creation song, known as a Song Line. The Song Line is as important as a holy relic held in the Vatican to traditional owners and their culture.
The Strategic Report's assessment of dinosaur footprints near James Price Point, prepared for the proposal of the gas precinct that Woodside wishes to build has been criticised. The preliminary report on palaeontology concluded that dinosaur footprints would be destroyed by the construction of the gas precinct but that they were "...not of museum grade quality."The world's largest dinosaur footprint has quite possibly been found in James... more
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