A Cliff Collapsed In The Grand Canyon And Unearthed This Startling Discovery. Tragic Or Not?

Published on 10/29/2021
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Some Kind Of Reptile

Amazingly, however, this is not the end of the story. Even while specialists are unaware of the particular type of organism that left the imprints, they are confident that it was some sort of reptile that did so. And, as Rowland said in an August 2020 statement from the National Park Service, this distinguishes them as truly unique. According to the researcher, “They are among the oldest tracks on Earth of shelled-egg-laying animals and the earliest evidence of vertebrate animals walking in sand dunes,”

Some Kind Of Reptile

Some Kind Of Reptile

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At The Equator, Creatures Crossed

According to sources, the tracks were produced when the territory that is now known as Arizona was a plain near the Equator when the state was known as Arizona. Afterward, Rowland believes that at some point, two prehistoric species traveled diagonally over the ground that would later become part of the Manakacha Formation, leaving their footprints in the process.

At The Equator, Creatures Crossed

At The Equator, Creatures Crossed

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