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Prehistoric Footprints Discovered At Grand Canyon
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through AZ Big Media's website.
Big Media, based in Phoenix, Arizona, reports that hikers on the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Trail discovered the tracks from a previously unknown animal that lived in the area 310 million years ago, some 250 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. Steve Rowland, a professor of geology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who examined the find said the 28 small footprints, found on a slab of rock that fell from the canyon wall, are game changers.
“Nobody’s ever found any tracks this low, this old in the Grand Canyon,” Rowland commented with Big Media, saying paleontologists had never bothered to examine rocks from that era. “Now that we know there were animals walking around … at that time period we can … look at some other places and see if we can find any additional tracks.” Rowland identified the animal as some kind of prehistoric reptilian creature, living at the very beginning of reptile evolution, but scientists won’t know for sure until they find its bones.
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