A DINER DISCOVERED 100 MILLION-YEAR-OLD DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS IN A RESTAURANT

  • 13 Aug - 19 Aug, 2022
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If you need an excuse to head to brunch this weekend, allow yourself to consider the possibility that your French toast may cause you to expand scientific discovery and research. Earlier in July, an observant patron at a restaurant in southwest China spotted a set of footprints in the stone floor of the courtyard where they were dining. And after the proper authorities were called in to observe and identify, the paleontologists on the scene discovered a new set of footprints, which they say belong to two dinosaurs that walked the planet some 100 million years ago. Paleontologist Dr Lida Xing was one of the experts called in to investigate. He told CNN that his team used a 3D scanner to confirm that the imprints were left by sauropods. Sauropods were plant-eaters with small heads and long necks and tails, and they were monstrous. "All these dinosaurs hatched out of eggs that were about the size of a grapefruit. So they were kind of like popcorn to the carnivores of their time," said Riley Black, a paleontologist and science writer. And although the time for sauropods to walk the Earth may be long gone, this discovery denotes an exciting time for paleontological research. Black said this type of encounter could be a reminder that the remains of fossils are still all around us.

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