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Abominable snowman and dinosaur footprints found

Footprints of both creatures have recently been discovered. But apparently the two didn't cross paths.

Reuters reports that a U.S. film crew's unveiling of fresh prints around Mt Everest has sparked a new fury of Yeti believers. Meanwhile, hunters spotted thousands of dino tracks in an ATV park in Utah, just north of the Arizona border.

Armed with infra-red cameras, the Yeti-hunting crew spent a week searching for the hairy beast.

Despite, or maybe because of the altitude, they happened upon the prints, which they say were less than 24-hours old. The footprints have been sent to "experts" for further investigation.

In Utah, locals have rallied to protect the newly discovered dinosaur prints, and the ATV park is now closed to big wheels.

The paleontology prints include those of a three-toed crocodile and a 35-foot-long vegetarian prosauropod.

"It is like a window we can look through at a time 190 million years ago, see its ecosystem," said Martin Lockley, who heads the Dinosaur Tracks Museum at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Via The Salt Lake Tribune

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