Don't Go Into The Water

Another dinosaur story and one that isn't quite breaking news- rather it's evidence that seems to support a long held theory. Tracks have been discovered which appear to show that theropods, which includes dinosaurs like T. Rex and their equally famous cousins the velociraptors, could swim. If you've read the Michael Crichton Jurassic Park novels, you'll be familiar with the concept; and what I wouldn't have given to see T. Rex swim on the big screen!

The tracks, which are 50 feet long (15 meters long) and contain 12 prints, suggest that a large animal was scrabbling at the bottom of a 10-foot-deep (3-meter-deep) lake with a swimming, not wading, motion.

The marks were likely left more than one hundred million years ago at the well-preserved La Virgen del Campo site, where scientists have also unearthed more than 10,000 other fossil footprints.

Ripples in the stone show that the dinosaur—possibly a T. rex—was fighting a current, trying not to drift sideways.

Other swimming tracks have been discovered in Utah and they may help to lend weight to the theory.