May 14, 2007: How to spot T. Rex footprints

Undertoad · 05-14-2007, 06:59 AM

It's the Neatorama Monday collaboration image!

LiveScience image gallery offers up this beaut, calling it "How To Spot T. Rex Footprints". Says here this print is from a "theropod, the same kind of dinosaur that T. Rex was." I suppose. although I thought Rex's nasty talons would sink into the muck and give a different impression.

Be sure to visit our friends at Neatorama for more neato stuff all the time!

HungLikeJesus · 05-14-2007, 08:12 AM

That's not a T. Rex foot. That's a human foot. And it's attached to someone who usually goes around in shorts and hiking boots, I would guess.

Where's Melvin Whitefeather?

snais · 05-14-2007, 08:19 AM

Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all.

Oh and hello everyone

i got linked over to the site from neatorama a while ago and have been looking through all the Image of the Day archives, which are amazing, and a great distraction from revising for my Biology exams. It is nice when something I'm studying comes up though, dinosaurs are awesome.

Anyway back to work!

glatt · 05-14-2007, 09:26 AM

If you think this is neat, and you are ever in Hartford, you should check out Dinosaur State Park just south of Hartford. Thousands of tracks discovered when the state was digging a foundation for a new Department of Transportation building. They have a big dome over them.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-14-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by snais

Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all.

Welcome to the Cellar, snais.

You wouldn't be so complacent if you'd had a tobacco chewing, ninja, tom turkey, spit in your eye.

piercehawkeye45 · 05-14-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by snais

Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all.

Spielberg based the Velociraptor off the dinosaur Deinonychus, which means "terrible claw" in some random language.

Nightsong · 05-14-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Spielberg based the Velociraptor off the dinosaur Deinonychus, which means "terrible claw" in some random language.

Then, just after that release came the news of the utahraptor. To quote Wikipedia

Utahraptor had a huge curved claw on the second toe that could grow to 23 cm (almost 9 inches) long. Up to 6.5 meters (22 feet) long, 2 meters (6 feet) tall and 700 kg (1500lbs) in weight, Utahraptor would have been a formidable predator.[1]

Would have looked a lot like the Raptors from JP

Armygrognard · 05-15-2007, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by snais

Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all.

Oh and hello everyone

i got linked over to the site from neatorama a while ago and have been looking through all the Image of the Day archives, which are amazing, and a great distraction from revising for my Biology exams. It is nice when something I'm studying comes up though, dinosaurs are awesome.

Anyway back to work!

Still and all, imagine a pack of those after you instead of pit bulls!

mitheral · 05-15-2007, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by snais

Oh and hello everyone !

Welcome snais.

Sundae · 05-14-2007, 08:56 AM

Welcome snais.

I'm not ready to give up being scared of velociraptors just yet - even waist high I believe they could do some damage.

Sheldonrs · 05-14-2007, 09:13 AM

Welcome to Mann's Jurassic Chinese Theatre.

Snapple · 05-14-2007, 10:44 AM

I'm sorry but I don't buy this image as being a real print. It looks like a place where water pooled and left an impression and then someone says it's a dino footie and people are all like 'ohhhhhhhhhhhh'. Well, i see the footprint of a twelve foot Donald Duck. As for the Hartford image above - tres cool!

barefoot serpent · 05-14-2007, 11:22 AM

Here's a pic of a trackway that I took in Namibia a couple of months ago. My brother for scale.

Griff · 05-16-2007, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

Here's a pic of a trackway that I took in Namibia a couple of months ago. My brother for scale.

Extremely cool!

Nikolai · 05-14-2007, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Snapple

I'm sorry but I don't buy this image as being a real print. It looks like a place where water pooled and left an impression and then someone says it's a dino footie and people are all like 'ohhhhhhhhhhhh'. Well, i see the footprint of a twelve foot Donald Duck. As for the Hartford image above - tres cool!

Well its often the reason why we find dino footie prints is due to the fact that rivers erode through many layers of rock eventually eroding through to the layer where once the mighty T-rex did a tap dance.

And to all the guys mentioning spielberg and the Velociraptors, you shouldnt be so worried about that and more worried about the dinosaur called the Giganotosaurus carolinii its about 47 feet long (14 m), 8 tons in weight, and 12 feet tall (4 m) which makes it roughly the size of T-rex and the scary thing is they proved this thing hunted in packs

05-14-2007, 06:59 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	May 14, 2007: How to spot T. Rex footprints It's the Neatorama Monday collaboration image! LiveScience image gallery offers up this beaut, calling it "How To Spot T. Rex Footprints". Says here this print is from a "theropod, the same kind of dinosaur that T. Rex was." I suppose. although I thought Rex's nasty talons would sink into the muck and give a different impression. Be sure to visit our friends at Neatorama for more neato stuff all the time!

05-14-2007, 08:12 AM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	That's not a T. Rex foot. That's a human foot. And it's attached to someone who usually goes around in shorts and hiking boots, I would guess. Where's Melvin Whitefeather? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

05-14-2007, 08:56 AM	#10
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Welcome snais. I'm not ready to give up being scared of velociraptors just yet - even waist high I believe they could do some damage. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

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05-14-2007, 11:22 AM	#13
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Here's a pic of a trackway that I took in Namibia a couple of months ago. My brother for scale. Attached Images __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

05-14-2007, 08:19 AM	#3
snais Person Who Has Posted Join Date: May 2007 Location: Durham, England Posts: 2	Dinosaur fun fact: another famous theropod, the velociraptor - the scary ones that hunt in packs from Jurassic Park - was actually only about the size of a turkey. Spielberg lied to us all. Oh and hello everyone i got linked over to the site from neatorama a while ago and have been looking through all the Image of the Day archives, which are amazing, and a great distraction from revising for my Biology exams. It is nice when something I'm studying comes up though, dinosaurs are awesome. Anyway back to work!

05-14-2007, 09:26 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	If you think this is neat, and you are ever in Hartford, you should check out Dinosaur State Park just south of Hartford. Thousands of tracks discovered when the state was digging a foundation for a new Department of Transportation building. They have a big dome over them.

05-14-2007, 10:44 AM	#12
Snapple Sibling of the Commonweal Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: in the t dot oh dot Posts: 16	I'm sorry but I don't buy this image as being a real print. It looks like a place where water pooled and left an impression and then someone says it's a dino footie and people are all like 'ohhhhhhhhhhhh'. Well, i see the footprint of a twelve foot Donald Duck. As for the Hartford image above - tres cool!

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