Dinosaur coastal highway.Dinosaur coastal highway The term Coastal Highway can refer to:
If you think about all the cars traveling along Route 101, which skirts the West Coast from Washington through southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , it hardly seems strange that dinosaurs may have had their own version of the coastal highway. Ichnologists, who study footprints, are beginning to piece together a dinosaur "freeway" they believe might have run for hundreds of kilometers along the coast of the ancient sea that filled the interior of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. during the Cretaceous period. Martin G. Lockley and Mark W. Jones at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
v. fos·sil·ized, fos·sil·iz·ing, fos·sil·iz·es v.tr. 1. To convert into a fossil. 2. To make outmoded or inflexible with time; antiquate. v.intr. tracks from iguanodontids and other dinosaurs. The researchers also finding signs that the tracks continue into New Mexico. These extensive tracks indicate dinosaurs roamed along the seashores, and are probably the firmest evidence yet that dinosaurs migrated up and down the coast, Lockley says. |
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