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Are Dinosaur and Human footprints found together in the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas?
Roland T. Bird in a 1939 article in Natural History (43:5.254-61) mentioned
giant carved human footprints from Glen Rose, Texas. Clifford Burdick refusing
to believe the prints were carved, searched and located the prints in 1945. In
1961 pictures of these tracks appeared in The Genesis Flood. In 1970 Stanley
Taylor with a film crew dammed up the Paluxy River to produce the film
Footprints in Stone which claimed dinosaur and human footprints are found
together. 
Carl Baugh (in a white T-shirt) did some more excavation of prints, and set up a very small museum in the first medicine store in Texas which was moved because of disputes between Carl Baugh and the land owner.
Dr. Arlton Murray went to Glen Rose, Texas to investigate the supposed dinosaur and human prints found by Carl Baugh. Other came to help Baugh remove rock layers to find prints.
Other prints were traced along the Paluxy River. Some water helps the prints stand out better.
One of the prints found by Carl Baugh is claimed to be a giant human footprint seen below.
The print is about 19 inches long and does not even look like a normal human footprint.
Dr. Arlton Murray was not convinced that this was a human foot print so he secretly made a mould of the print when Baugh was not there.
Dr. Murray took the mould to an expert podiatrict in Texas who said that anatomically this was not a human footprint.
If the outer two toe prints of the T-Rex are filled in, it will look somewhat like a human footprint. While Dr. Murray was there he met Glan Kuban who was studying the prints.
When these tracks were reexamined very closely by Glen Kuban and other experts, they were found to be dinosaur tracks not human footprints. Erosion and back fill made some of them look human.
When the Taylor trail was followed the prints turned into clear dinosaur tracks. On other prints claw marks were seen (See Glen Kuban's excellent website at http://members.aol.com/paluxy2/paluxy.htm). Because of this evidence the film Footprints in Stone was removed from circulation. Dr. John Morris wrote Impact article 151 (1986) stating "none of the four tails at the Taylor site can be today regarded as unquestionably human."
Other prehistoric animals like mastodons were clearly around at the same time as
man because arrows, spears and knife marks have been found on the bones, but
none of this has been found with dinosaur bones.
There has been much false information given out by Carl Baugh (Creation
Science Museum). The human
footprint
he bought is clearly a carving. The supposed wood is iron oxide. The supposed
human finger is most likely a burrow filling. The large skeleton is just 200-300 years old
and not part of the Cretaceous layer. The hammer in the rock, called the "London
Artifact" is most likely a 19th century
miner’s hammer (See above picture). His dinosaur claws are actually crocodile teeth.
The supposed human tooth is a
fish tooth. There are no
clear human footprints in the Paluxy River except the ones that were carved
which are anatomically wrong.
Even Answers In Genesis questioned Carl Baugh's views (See web page at http://members.aol.com/paluxy2/whatbau.htm) For more information see Creation/Evolution 15,&17 published by NCSE (See their website at http://www.natcenscied.org/).
When I (Dr. Stephen C. Meyers) saw Carl Baugh's video of the excavation, I was very disappointed. The quality was very poor. One could not tell what he was excavating. The audio said Baugh was removing marl. Marl can easily be removed to form whatever shape one wants.
Dinosaur Valley State Park
There is now Dinosaur Valley State Park where one can see some of the best preserved dinosaur tracks in the United States, and the supposed human footprints. The park is located Northwest of Glen Rose, Texas. Their web site is at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/dinosaur/dinosaur.htm
Links to Other Sites about Dinosaur Tracks
See http://members.aol.com/fostrak/ichno.htm
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