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9. Hope they don't dig it up like they did to a similar site in Arkansas ...

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:50 PM

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... to get to the "valuable" gypsum underneath.

Apparently sheetrock >> hundred-million-years old fossils

https://news.uark.edu/articles/40630/u-of-a-digitally-preserves-important-dinosaur-tracks-found-in-arkansas

https://onlyinark.com/homegrown/dinosaurs-in-arkansas/ (find of a second site)

(A little OT: the press release refers to a specific genus of dinosaur. I was under the strong impression that this is not the usual practice, since fossil footprints are not usually found with the maker still in them and identity is far from certain. Alternative names, usually ending in 'pus' or 'pes' (foot) are usually assigned. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dinosaur_ichnogenera )

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But weren't there any human footprints alongside them? sinkingfeeling Friday #1

Jesus picked the human up and carried him at that point Easterncedar Friday #2

Jesus was a dinosaur? Probatim Friday #8

That would explain a lot Easterncedar Friday #10

Now if they can just find that ark... JohnnyRingo Friday #3

So no Pterodactyl or Stegosaurus.... JohnnyRingo Friday #11

Great toon. Hotler Friday #7

What coast line? broiles Friday #4

Hope they don't dig it up like they did to a similar site in Arkansas ... eppur_se_muova Friday #9