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- A mystery footprint found by a fossil collector in Utah
two decades ago is said to be 300 to 600 million years old, another ancient
mystery yet to be solved. And he apparently wasn't alone in his discovery.
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- Amateur fossil-hunter William J. Meister discovered the
shale-embedded footprint impression in 1968 at Antelope Springs, and his
find received national publicity after the Desert News picked up the story.
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- Commentators of the time saw the footprint as a mystery
for two reasons. One is that a fossil of a trilobite was embedded in the
impression, as if stepped upon and crushed. These marine invertebrates
became extinct nearly 300 million years ago, after flourishing for more
than 300 million years.
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- The second puzzler is the "known" age of mankind
on Earth, believed to be no more than one to two million years ago. The
10.5-inch footprint appeared to have been made by a human wearing a sandal.
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- When Tuscon geologist Dr. Clifford Burdick examined the
site a month later, he also found an impression in shale formations that
appeared to have been the footprint of a child without footwear; it was
six inches in length, with spread toes and no prominent big toe.
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- And in August of the same year, a Salt Lake public school
teacher, Dean Bittner, claimed to have discovered yet two more prints in
the Antelope Spring area, with small trilobites nearby. He said the trilobites
and sandaled wanderer appeared to have been contemporaries. Asked the Creation
Research Society Quarterly, "is this proof that there were previous
civilizations on Earth, or visitors from another world?
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