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Walk with the Dinosaurs

Dinosaur tracks co-exist with humanoid tracks in the riverbed of Paluxy River, near Glen Rose Texas. No one has challenged the existence of the dinosaur tracks. However, no one wants to believe the authenticity of the humanoid tracks. This is because paleontolgist refuse to challenge the belief that dinosaurs were extinct 60 million years before the birth of mankind.

During the Depression locals would carve human tracks next to the "real" dinosaur tracks and sell both sets of tracks. This conviently explains the existence of the humanoid tracks to the scientific community.

Still some residents such as Mr. Jim Ryals reports chiseling the humanoid tracks from the riverbed to sell. He told investigators how they could tell the real tracks from the fake:

First, the pressure of the foot usually pushed up a ridge of mud around the outside of the track. Second if the track is broken open or sawed, pressure lines can be found beneath the surface. Third, when the "real" tracks were chiseled out of the riverbed, the workman was usually very careful to do his chiseling a good distance from the track for fear of damaging it. This resulted in a rather wide circle of the limestone surrounding the foot print. Therefore the residents selling these prints knew the differences between the real and fake prints.

Unfortunately, for the paleontoligist, a large number of the same prints have been found in areas of the riverbed normally submerged. In 1976, Jack Walper, professor of geology at Texas Christian University, and John Green examined areas of the submerged riverbed by using dikes and pumpes.They found a number of dinosaur and humanoid tracks.

So, anyone wishing to create these tracks would have had to carve away a large area of rock around the print to leave the ridge of fosslized mud the pressure of the foot would create. They would have also had to do all of this underwater.

If we could walk with the dinosaurs...