RM> Odd news story this week. Probably in the last place anyone would
RM> expect, a fossilized animal footprint about the size of a human
RM> hand was found on Prince Edward Island, Canada and thrown the..

AA>I'm not convinced that methods to date things like that is
  >completely accurate or reliable.

Probably not totally accurate but I'm sure they are using the same
methods that have been used to 'date' other specimens, or in this
case it's more like estimating the age of rock in that area, so
the numbers may be inaccurate but should be comparative..

It's like the carbon dating, we think of it as being pretty
accurate but you often find that the older the specimen is,
the wider the margin of error, like you start getting the age
of a sample may be plus or minus 5,000 years old when you're
getting close to the maximum it can do, about 50,000 years old..

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