Ancient Two-Legged Crocodile Left Behind These Awesome Footprints

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Modern crocodiles are known for their sprawling four-legged gait, but this Cretaceous crocodilian walked on two legs as it prowled prehistoric shores, as evidenced by well-preserved footprints it left behind.

This remarkable trace fossil, called Batrachopus grandis, was discovered at the Sacheon Jahye-ri tracksite in South Korea, which dates back to around 110 million to 120 million years ago. As shown by its footprints, this animal featured distinctly crocodile-like hind feet, yet it left no trace of its forelimbs or a dragging tail, leading an international team of researchers to conclude that the creature that left these tracks was a bipedal crocodilian. This research was published today in Scientific Reports.

Crocodilians, as the name suggests, refer to a diverse group of crocodile-like creatures, to which modern crocodiles and alligators are descended. The animal that left these tracks, however, was very un-crocodile-like in that it resembles bipedal theropod dinosaurs, with their long hind legs and narrow gait. Modern crocodiles, by contrast, feature short legs and leave behind wide trackways when they walk.

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Nice find. Now, I would disagree that it was 110 million years ago. It was probably an extinct lizard, just like some other animals that went extinct (including dinosaurs), died out around 4,300 years ago in Noah's Flood.

But something I found in that article that is very interesting. It says that there are no footprints of the forelimbs or the dragging tail. How do they know what the creature looked like, just by its footprints? It would be a lot different if we found fossils of the creature, then we would know what shape or what this creature really is. I'm afraid that footprints are not really enough to go by when trying to describe the creature.
 
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Dinosaurs and crocodilians aren’t lizards . Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians and birds are archosaurs. Paleontologists classify archosaurs by the structure of the ankles. They would be able to tell they were crocodilians by the footprints because they can sometimes can tell the structure of the bones . Do you have a valid reason for not accepting the date of 110 million years ago?
 
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Nice find. Now, I would disagree that it was 110 million years ago. It was probably an extinct lizard, just like some other animals that went extinct (including dinosaurs), died out around 4,300 years ago in Noah's Flood.

But something I found in that article that is very interesting. It says that there are no footprints of the forelimbs or the dragging tail. How do they know what the creature looked like, just by its footprints? It would be a lot different if we found fossils of the creature, then we would know what shape or what this creature really is. I'm afraid that footprints are not really enough to go by when trying to describe the creature.

The reason the tracks are considered of crocodile-like of course is because the tracks appear to be like those of crocodiles. Crocodile-like fossils do exist in the fossil record, as do other crocodile-like bones.

The reason they say there are no forelimbs and tail drag marks, is because other tracks of a similar appearance that originate from crocodylomorphs of course have these traits.

And so they're just saying, hey this is surprising, here are more tracks like others we have found, but for some reason we don't see tracks of forelimbs and a tail. Which suggests a morphology similar to crocodiles, but one specifically that walked on two legs.

And obviously this animal wouldn't be a crocodile as we know it, rather it would be a reptile of similar morphology to a crocodile, that walked on two legs.

"Crocodylopodus represent relatively small animals (footprint lengths less than ~9.0–10.0 cm) with slender digit traces, which may reflect penetrative track preservation20. However, the trackway configuration is diagnostically crocodilian, with elongate tetradactyl pes and outwardly rotated pentadactyl manus, not unlike those of extant crocodilians21,22,23 (Supplementary Information: SI Fig. 1)."

"Here we report on a large, newly-discovered Jinju Formation assemblage with multiple trackways of large crocodylomorph tracks with footprint lengths up to 24.0 cm, from the Sacheon Jahye-ri tracksite, near Sacheon City (Fig. 1). These tracks are more than twice as large as any previously reported batrachopodid tracks and closely resemble Batrachopus with well-preserved pes footprints with clear digital pad impressions and localized skin traces."

"One track shows well-defined skin (scale) impressions in the heel area that resemble those typical of modern crocodilians (Fig. 4B and SI Fig. 5)21,22,23. "

"Various crocodylomorph tracks have been reported from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic13,22 and assigned to at least eleven ichnogenera (Table 1) of which six occur exclusively in the Jurassic and Cretaceous."

Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea | Scientific Reports

Basically, they're calling them crocodylomorphs because they look similar to a whole host of crocodile fossils and tracks that have been previously discovered, as well as tracks of crocodiles living today.
 
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You know that you’re gonna have to translate from sciencese to English. Manus roughly mean hand or forepaw. Pes - hind foot
Crocodilomorph - related to crocodilians but might not be a crocodile . Ichinogenera a rough assignment of trace fossils into a clade. They know that wasn’t a dinosaur because of the way it walked on it’s toes. Dinosaurs don’t walk like that
 
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Modern crocodiles are known for their sprawling four-legged gait, but this Cretaceous crocodilian walked on two legs as it prowled prehistoric shores, as evidenced by well-preserved footprints it left behind.

This remarkable trace fossil, called Batrachopus grandis, was discovered at the Sacheon Jahye-ri tracksite in South Korea, which dates back to around 110 million to 120 million years ago. As shown by its footprints, this animal featured distinctly crocodile-like hind feet, yet it left no trace of its forelimbs or a dragging tail, leading an international team of researchers to conclude that the creature that left these tracks was a bipedal crocodilian. This research was published today in Scientific Reports.

Crocodilians, as the name suggests, refer to a diverse group of crocodile-like creatures, to which modern crocodiles and alligators are descended. The animal that left these tracks, however, was very un-crocodile-like in that it resembles bipedal theropod dinosaurs, with their long hind legs and narrow gait. Modern crocodiles, by contrast, feature short legs and leave behind wide trackways when they walk.

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Ancient Two-Legged Crocodile Left Behind These Awesome Footprints


The angels had lots of fascinating animals in their domain. Just like Adam was given our creation of animals for his domain.

Its not about evolution. Its about God's modus operandi that he reveals in Scripture.

For example. We are now living in what will someday be seen as a prehistoric creation. This is what I am getting at:

The following will not be evolution. It will be instantaneously achieved over night as God creates a new created world on earth for the new era He will enter mankind into.


The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord. Isaiah 65:25



6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest."
Isaiah 11:6-8


What we now see will become prehistoric to those on earth at that time.


"See, I will create new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered, nor
will they come to mind."
Isa 65:17

We are living in the prehistoric times of the future. They will not know what was really happening. Imagine if they dig up a skeleton of a lion we have today and notice the incisor teeth? What will they think? Speculation could be rampant if they did not have the Word of God to show them.
 
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