Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 28, 2015
Transcript:
Anteaters are able to stick out their tongues up to 160 times a minute. Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum got the name Oz from his filing cabinet- a drawer was marked O to Z. Carl Orcko, a limestone cliff in Bolivia, is home to nearly 5000 dinosaur footprints- many dating back 68 million years!
Bilan about 9 years ago
How do you carbon date a footprint?
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member about 9 years ago
I always wondered why my ex-wife wanted a pet anteater.How did dinosaurs walk on vertical cliff faces?It could have been the Wizard of AH.
aimlesscruzr about 9 years ago
Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT is one of the largest dinosaur track sites in North America. With about 500 tracks, it’s small compared to Cal Orcko, but easier for some of us to get to, and still pretty cool….
Dinosaur State Park
TomGn about 9 years ago
How did the footprints remain, erosion should have erased them by now
jfgecik about 9 years ago
An Internet site that has been online for many years, run by a trivia expert (author of published works), recently claimed that L. Frank Baum revealed that “OZ” was simply a nonsense-word that he invented — not something that he saw on a book. I suspect that the latter is a little myth that has been picked up by the (non-fact-checking) Ripley crew.
therese_callahan2002 about 9 years ago
The L. Frank Baum one doesn’t surprise me. I read about that when I was a kid.
Durak Premium Member about 9 years ago
Somewhere there must be a sequel; The Wizard of An.
Peam Premium Member about 9 years ago
160 / minute may seem impressive, but it’s only just under 3 per second, and if I needed to lap up ants for dinner I’d be sucking them in that fast too.A classic example of a gee-wizz number fallacy.
spaced man spliff about 9 years ago
I wonder about some of those dinosaurs: At 30 or 40 tons or more (e g diplodocus) wouldn’t they collapse under own weight if they tried to walg on land?
sdjamieson Premium Member about 9 years ago
“The Wonderful Wizard of AN” is definitely not as cool!