Meaning of Paluxy Man | Babel Free

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A hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl).

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“Langston also noted that one of the most widely reproduced footprint photos of Paluxy man shows a portion of a poor print of a tridactyl dinosaur; this may be clear, however, only to someone who, having studied the anatomy of the dinosaur foot, knows what to look for.”

“Cryptozoology: The study of Bigfoot, Paluxy Man, the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman (Yetti) and other things that go bump in the night.”

“The upshot was that the evidence against was so substantive and so convincing that a self-proclaimed creation scientist subsequently rejected his authentication of the Paluxy Man and caused his publisher to recall the book he'd written about it.”

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