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Dinosaur at Denali -- News Conference
Today A 70 million-year-old dinosaur footprint fossil was found
along the Denali Park Road last week, the first dinosaur evidence
found in the park. The National Park Service will hold a press conference
at 1:30 p.m. today, where details of the discovery will be described.
Participating in the phone-in event
will be: · Dr. Anothony Fiorillo, Curator of Earth Sciences at the
Dallas Museum of Natural History. · Dr. Paul McCarthy, University
of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Geology and Geophysics. · Susi
Tomsich and Jeremiah Drewel, students at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks who found the track. · Dr. Phillip Hooge, assistant superintendent
at Denali National Park.
Reporters should call a conference
line, 877-928-6066, and use the participant code 664549. Alternatively,
journalists may come to the National Park Service regional office,
240 W. 5th Avenue, Anchorage, to join the conference call. However,
the principal speakers in the news conference will be at Denali
National Park and in Dallas, Texas.
Here are
two photographs
of the footprint. More information will be posted later today at
www.nps.gov/alaska under the "Alaska Press Room" link. A press release
providing additional detail will be available through the above
web address before the press conference. Further information on
the conference call is available from Jane Ahern, 644-3513.
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