Tourist's photo leads to 120-million-year-old dinosaur footprints in…

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's 11:40, this is Finally, Some Good News, and tonight a tourist in Thailand posted a photo on Facebook asking whether a mark on a rock was a dinosaur footprint, and it was.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo somebody asked Facebook a question and got a correct answer. I'd like that checked.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThailand's Department of Mineral Resources confirmed on Tuesday that six footprints in one trackway, at Phu Phra Bat in Udon Thani, came from a meat-eating theropod. It's the province's first find, and I'm getting a little emotional.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPark rangers first guessed the prints were over one hundred thirty million years old. It's closer to one hundred twenty.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTen million years off, and that was the expert opinion.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEach print is twenty-nine centimetres long with three pointed toes, and the dinosaur stood about one point four two metres at the hip.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix prints. Nobody was there to ask it the way.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSix footprints, one tourist, and the first time the comments section has ever helped.