Dinosaur's footprints found in Phitsanulok

PHITSANULOK: -- A dinosaur's footprints have been found in Phoo Hin Rong Kla National Park in Phitsanulok.

French paleontologist Jean Re Loeuff, who has led a team of two Thai geologists, said he could not yet identify which type of the reptile whose footprints were found, but they should belong to a predatory species that roamed the earth more than 100 millions year ago.

Each of all 20 prints has three claws and is around 30 cm in width and 40 cm in length. Each print is engraved in a stone platform, which used to be a muddy plain and now becomes a creek bed, in 34 cm deep. Each print is located around 1.5 m apart from one another.

The creek is located near Man Daeng Waterfall inside the Park. The very first discoverers of the prints are a group of villagers, who later notified a forest ranger unit inside the Park.

The two Thais are Phisit Yuangdejkla and Thida Saenyamool, senior geologists with the Department of Mineral Resources said. Phisit said the prints found in the Park were very similar to those found recently in Phoo Luang wildlife reserve in Leoi in the Northeast, which is around 500 km away.

-- The Nation 2006-12-26

Can you imagine back in those days before Phitsanulok had water buffalos, how many farangs had to send money to their girlfriends for sick dinosaurs.

Can you imagine back in those days before Phitsanulok had water buffalos, how many farangs had to send money to their girlfriends for sick dinosaurs.

Excellent!

:D

Plenty of Dinosaurs in the halls of government in Bangkok...................

10 footprints of a dinosaur discovered in Phisanulok

The Department of Mineral Resources sighted 10 footprints of a dinosaur at Phu Hin Rongkla National Park in Phitsanulok province.

The ancient marks can be found on sandstones at Phuhin Rongkra National Park, and they were discovered in November last year. Each footprint consists of three fingers that are 40 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.

The distances between each footprint are around 120 to 140 centimeters, and they are imprinted on 130-million-year sandstones.

The officials from the Mineral Resources Department will conduct further studies on this astounding discovery, and they will also be displayed at Phu Wieng Dinosaur Museum in Khon Kaen province and Sirindhorn Museum in Kalasin province.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 03 January 2007

I would love to see them for myself.

I just wonder how many other things like this are either laying around in plain view or have been destroyed without realising it?