Just overheard on Vancouver CBC Radio:

Oldest dinosaur tracks in Western Canada* discovered in coal mine near Fernie, BC.

Details: tracks of “medium and large-sized meat eating dinosaurs” were discovered on a vertical surface “quite far up; 100 to 150 feet up”. The appropriate experts are examining them, etc. (sorry, didn’t catch ALL the details)

Humbling, but so goes the advance of science.

[ 24 February 2005: Message edited by: 'lance ]

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Originally posted by Hephaestion:
Details: tracks of “medium and large-sized meat eating dinosaurs” were discovered on a vertical surface “quite far up; 100 to 150 feet up”. The appropriate experts are examining them, etc.

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Oldest dinosaur prints in W. Canada found in BC coal mine .

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Well I hope that teaches a valuable lesson to all those cynics searching in Myron Thompson's house.

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Originally posted by Hephaestion:
Ahhh... the pitty-patter of enormous feet...

Just overheard on Vancouver CBC Radio:

Oldest dinosaur tracks in Western Canada* discovered in coal mine near Fernie, BC.

Details: tracks of “medium and large-sized meat eating dinosaurs” were discovered on a vertical surface “quite far up; 100 to 150 feet up”. The appropriate experts are examining them, etc. (sorry, didn’t catch ALL the details)

* didn’t catch the exact estimated age of the prints, either. I imagine it will be on the CBC website pretty soon, for anyone interested.

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One of the exploration outfits that put the first roads in found a t-rex,dont think it made it to a museum either.
Most finds dont.

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Prolly in someones basement gathering dust now that the thrill of the find has wore off.There has been other finds but you wont hear of them.Small town talk has 2 t-rex finds by local contractors hidden away.
The Heritage resources act says you can keep a fossil if found above ground,but even useing the tip of your boot to kick a partially buried fossil out of the ground will require an excavation permit.The law is to protect the specimens but they forgot to factor in human curiosity. I have a site a few miles from my home where I find the most beautifull Ammonites and clams where they should,nt be.
It's prolly illegal for me to collect but the only reason I found it was because the dozers had made a pad for a sour gas rig that never did go up. Now if that dozer operator was a rock hound he would have an impressive ammonite collection right now. Tried to put a claim on the site once but it's big bucks.I can only imagine whats hidden away in some folks basements.

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I don't know if there is a legitimate source; do bones from a dig belong to the government or who?

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Maybe aRoused can step in here, but on geology field trips back at UBC, we were told we could not collect fossils or rock samples if the area was designated a park (national or provincial). If it was ordinary Crown land, or private property where we had the owner's permission, it was OK.

Of course, we were looking only at bedrock outcrops which couldn't possibly have contained any human fossils, and weren't digging in soil, which might have turned up relatively recent aboriginal grave sites and such.

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Well, the Alberta law in no way, shape, or form prevents
fossil collecting by amatuers. It does not discourage it or make it
any harder...if such was the case, then I wouldn't be out there every
season, I don't need the hassle. What the law DOES stipulate is that
surface collecting alone is allowed. common fossils, vertibrate and
invertibrate, are allowed to be collected as long as they are on the
surface; heck, even extremly rare fossils are allowed to be collected
as long as they are on the surface. So if that T-Rex skull or
_dromaeosaurus_ skeleton is just laying there, you can take it

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long read

[ 02 March 2005: Message edited by: ziggy ]