This morning we set off in the dino truck to see 65-68 million year old dinosaur footprints. We were joined, coincidentally, by a couple from Manchester, Jenny and Gareth, who gave us more advice on where to live! The site has the most dinosaur footprints found anywhere in the world, bizarrely located on a vertical wall (tectonic plate movement had obviously moved them from their horizontal position). 5,000 footprints from 3 herbivores and 1 carnivore, we learnt how to distinguish between them based on whether they had hips like a lizard (the carnivores and long legged herbivores) which meant their left and right prints were parallel, or hips like a bird which resulted in prints turning either in or outward. Then of course the shape of the print and the number of toes. Unfortunately we had
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