The dig was set up for home educators by Vision Forum and Creation Expeditions.  A week after announcing the formation of the trip, all of the 300 spots were secured by eager home schoolers. Although the cost per person was $995, the results were spectacular and certainly worth any expense.  For one week the group hunted for fossils in a privately owned location in the Skull Creek Basin or Northwest Colorado.  Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum, led the excavation along with veteran paleontologist with Creation Expeditions Peter DeRosa.

What is so special about this Allosaurus?  Only thirty-seven have been found. Of these, only thirteen have been discovered more than 25% intact.  Out of those thirteen, only three are graced with complete skulls. This find not only provides the fourth complete skull, but almost 70% of the animal has been found. For Creation Scientists, this is exciting, as this particular dinosaur may prove to be the best-preserved and most complete Allosaur the world has ever seen.

Each team member was expectedly pleased with such spectacular finds, which also included a ‘behemoth’ sauropod which they believe to be among the rare Ultrasaurus variety.  Says Phillips, “What is amazing about this Sauropod is the fact that it constitutes an entire hill.  This is an enormous and impressive creature.  Everywhere we dig, we seem to be finding more bones – from six-foot femurs to ribs to vertebrae.”

Besides having the most complete Allosaur, what else makes this dig exciting?  “The evidence strongly points to a relatively recent and catastrophic event similar to that described in the Bible as the Flood of Noah’s day,” says Pete DeRosa. “We found a complete section of vertebrae more than twelve feet in length which was fully articulated.  The dinosaur appears to be in much the same position as he was at the time of his death and burial, which must have been virtually instantaneous, and caused by a catastrophic event.  Not only was this fully articulated dinosaur found laying in a bed of leaves and plant debris, but there is wood from trees mixed in among the bones, some of which contains petrified and non-petrified elements in the same piece of wood. If this creature were millions of years old, the evidence would look quite different.”

Also exciting is that this find boosts Creation Scientists into a place of prominence among paleontologists.  Doug Phillips explains that, “up to now, a well-funded and insular community of evolutionary theorists have dominated the field of paleontology, directing most of the large dinosaur finds to research and museums committed to interpreting the fossil evidence through the faith-driven assumptions of evolution.  To have a dinosaur of this size and significance within the camp of scientists committed to the creation model is nothing short of a coup d’etat.”

New Look For TrueAuthority.com
byJordan Niednagel
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We're hard at work, and the new look for TrueAuthority.com is almost here.  Why the new look?  Simpler, cleaner and more user friendly are adjectives that come to mind.  TrueAuthority.com is slowly becoming an encyclopedia of information, as new articles continue to be added and readers and visitors continue take part in what has become one of the most prolific and popular science websites on the Net.

We expect the new look to be finished by the end of May.  Look out for it!

Super Croc Found In The Sahara
by Jonathan Robison
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As we always endeavor to point out, life of long ago was bigger and better than today.  More species' existed, and nearly all grew to larger and more impressive sizes.  Truly, nature has not progressed.

Further supporting this theory is the recent discovery of one of the largest crocodilian species to have ever lived, dubbed "Super Croc."  Believed to have reached 40 feet in length (they apparently only discovered the head), the reptile would have made Africa's ancient riverbanks a dangerous place, even for a dinosaur.

"We had never seen anything like it," said Paul Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. "The snout and teeth were designed for grabbing prey–fish, turtles and dinosaurs that strayed too close."

Interestingly enough, reported sightings of crocodiles as large and even larger than Super Croc have been made in a few remote parts of world, namely Central Africa and South America.  Natives describe some as reaching more than 60 feet in length, dwarfing even this 40-foot fossil find.  Hard to believe, yes, but impossible?  Only time will tell.

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