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Lost world of dinosaurs threatened by gas industry

By Jeff Hecht and Michael Slezak

1 August 2012

Update, 12 April 2013 Woodside Petroleum has to develop the gas plant at James Price Point.

IF YOU stand on the clifftop at James Price Point in Western Australia and look out over the rocky foreshore, you will see a landscape that has been practically undisturbed since the early Cretaceous. The sandstone is pockmarked by oval pools 1.5 metres long – the fossilised footprints of herds of giant dinosaurs.

The 130-million-year-old footprints are dotted down 200 kilometres of shoreline on the . But palaeontologists say the small section found at James Price Point is particularly significant,…

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