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that eventually succeeded them. Many of the fossils that date from that time remain hidden, buried under North
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in a fall when he was nine. His injury healed poorly, leaving him unable to participate in sports with his peers, so he began exploring the beaches and cliffs near his home collecting rocks and
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measuring 16 Ă— 14 inches (40 Ă— 35 cm). At first, he thought the three-toed tracks had been made by a reptile, but Olsen identified them as dinosaur prints. The prints belonged to a
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