<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8a9a7dc-cbae-49c7-8a90-22ee1fad666a/6C2302FF-427E-455D-B81E-4FF07CA99D03/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.msnbc.msn.com/img/F442E035-BA0E-4C2D-BFDF-4B98C034BC2F" alt="Image: Small fossil mammal footprint" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><DIV class="textMedBlackBold">By Mike Stark  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>SALT LAKE CITY - Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>The tracks are a rare find, mostly because they were left at a time when the area was a hostile, vast Sahara-like desert where towering <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="10625570">sand dunes</A> seldom preserved signs of animal life.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>"It's just astonishing," Dan Chure, a <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="10629877">paleontologist</A> at the monument, said Thursday. "We were giggling like kids."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Most of the tracks are the size of a dime or smaller. A few include impressions of up to four toes. The mammals — perhaps the size of a rat — were among the few species that were able to survive between large <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="10625569">sand dune fields</A> where there was water, dinosaurs and a few plants, Chure said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113574/ns/technology_and_science-science/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>There were likely once thousands more tracks in the area that have since been lost to erosion, Chure said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6C2302FF-427E-455D-B81E-4FF07CA99D03/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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