Comments on: Enormous footprints found on cave ceiling

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:15:21 +0000

First thought – hmm isolation is getting to Greg and he’s sharing his hallucinations with us. Second was hey April 1 was 9 days ago.Then I went and looked it up https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2019.1728286 – nice find Greg 🙂

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:16:37 +0000

But there is this:

http://www.chris-winter.com/Erudition/Reviews/SciFiFic/White_J/Hospital_Station.html

Perhaps the creature on the cover could travel in time as well as levitate. /s

(There’s always room for some levity…)

By: Edgar Carpenter

Edgar Carpenter — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 03:23:06 +0000

In reply to Bernard J..

Excellent point. If they can be recovered, they’ll be pieced together.

It’s a bit sad that the upside down dinosaur went extinct so quickly.

By: Bernard J.

Bernard J. — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:43:48 +0000

That cave appears to have formed by collapse in a sinkhole manner. The remnants of the actual footprints are likely present amidst the rubble below.

By: Edgar Carpenter

Edgar Carpenter — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:25:00 +0000

In reply to Tyvor Winn. Yes, given the light source and the shadows, those look like naturally occuring casts of prints, not prints. If Greg is enjoying some intoxicating substances while he's stuck at home, good for him. The thought of upside down dinosaurs cheered me up.

By: Tyvor Winn

Tyvor Winn — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:18:11 +0000

From the picture, I suggest that the footprints are casts of the original depressions on the bottom of a bed that was deposited on the bed containing the footprints and filling them in forming the features now seen of the ceiling of the cavern.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:43:05 +0000

I’ve only read the summaries, so I’m not sure of the exact context and orientation, but limestones from the middle Jurassic in Southern France are sometimes very tilted, so I suppose this could be an upside down (or at least, tilted over 90 degrees) layer.

That has a much lower “wow factor” than a gravity defying species of dinosaur.

Still immensely cool.