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First Adult T. Rex Trackway Named

TL;DR

Axios files Denver scientists on a Hell Creek trackway likely from an adult T. rex. Four prints are not a living dinosaur.

MSM Perspective

Axios files the North Dakota sequence. Sci.News files the same trackway. A stride is not a hunt.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a paper as a new species already walking.

Scientists described a four-print trackway from the Hell Creek Formation as likely left by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex. [1] Axios filed the Wednesday Denver announcement. [1] Sci.News filed the same sequence. [2] Four prints are not a living dinosaur. Print the trackway. Do not print a hunt.

A 13-foot stride is locomotion, not behavior certified as hunting. Leave a named museum display to the edition that owns a named display. A paper is still not a Jurassic park. Isolated adult prints from other states were already known. A connected four-print sequence is the named claim. Likely is still not a living dinosaur. Print the trackway, not a hunt.

Print the trackway. Print likely. Wednesday is not a living T. rex.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo

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