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Baugh said the scans prove that the impressions are real and could not have been carved or etched into the stone.
The compression lines, the density features, do show, and there is no way to fake that, he said. It is possible to carve a track in limestone. But there is no way to compress the material in the rock under the track. That is absolutely impossible. Thats why the CAT scans are so important.
He said the scans demonstrate the human footprint was made during locomotion. Thats very important. That distribution is shown here. Compression is in the right place under both prints. Density. Compression, distribution. The density factor is there. Weight distribution. Forward locomotion, rocking of the foot.
He also noted how the dinosaurs impression pushed up material from the human print and altered its shape in the area of the intrusion.
The rock is approximately 30 inches by 24 inches. The human footprint, with a deep big toe impression, measures 11 inches in length. Baugh said the theropod track was made by an Acrocanthosaurus. Baugh said this particular track was likely made by a juvenile Acrocanthosaurus, one he said was probably about 20 feet long, stood about 8 feet tall and walked stooped over, weighing a few tons.
Its tracks common in the Glen Rose area, the Acrocanthosaurus is a dinosaur that many experts believe existed primarily in North America during the mid-Cretaceous Period, approximately 125 million to 100 million years ago.
Baugh said Delks discovery casts doubts on that theory. Baugh said he believes both sets of prints were made within minutes, or no more than hours of each other about 4,500 years ago, around the time of Noahs Flood. He said the clay-like material that the human and dinosaur stepped in soon hardened, becoming thick, dense limestone common in North Texas.
He said the human print matches seven others found in the same area, stating the museum has performed excavations since 1982 in the area Baugh has dubbed the Alvis Delk Cretaceous Footprint discovery.
Baugh said he knows there are and will be skeptics, especially since the find is very recent and so far has been tested only in a medical laboratory by a medical doctor. Still, he said he is so confident in the authenticity of the specimen he is ready to put his reputation entirely on the line. He said he is willing put the rock to any non-destructive tests.
Its dynamite, Baugh said of the fossil.
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