Blue Collar Scientist

NewsDaily, Shortnews, and a bunch of other outlets are reporting that Rhys Nichols has discovered dinosaur tracks while walking on the beach near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, with his father. Rhys is eight years old, proving the oft-repeated adage that paleontology and astronomy are the two disciplines to which amateurs commonly make scientific contributions.

It is reported they are probably Iguanodon tracks from the Jurassic.

“This is a great find as dinosaur prints are not normally that clear,” archaeologist Will Watts said, “Looking at the size of the prints, the dinosaur was probably the same size as Rhys.”

Umm - archaeologist?

Tags: dinosaur, footprints, Iguanodon, Jurassic, paleontology, trace fossil, tracks

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