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The track is that of a right foot, probably distorted in the original soft mud, and is 44 cm in length by 30 cm across the toes. There were signs that other tracks had been embedded nearby, but these have gradu- ally weathered away 'till hardly any trace of them remains. perhaps they were originally covered by a volcanic ash flow. Signs of volcanic activity are to be found all around the Inverell district, and weath- ered basalt nearby the fossil footprints suggests that this and the other tracks had originally been cov- ered by volcanic activity. Maybe this single surviving weathered giant tracks belonged to one of a whole group, perhaps a family of giant hominids, fleeing from the eruption which subsequently covered their tracks-in a similar way to those more famous normal-sized hominid tracks, found in 1974 by anthropologist Dr Mary Leakey at Laetoli in Tanzania, which proved to scientists at the time that early hominids were already walking fully upright like modern humans three and a half million years ago. The Inverell 'megaman' and his relatives obviously walked the landscape hereabouts a very long time ago. If the Carrai range fossil tracks are any guide, then we could be safe in assuming the Inverell fossil is of the same antiquity-that is, preserved by a lava flow that occurred no later than a million years ago! The monster hominid whose single footprint still survives must have been enormous, at least four metres in height and of great weight and strength. Aborigines of later times across Australia, particularly the New England district, kept well clear of these hairy giants unless they were well-armed and in sufficient numbers to oppose them. According to tradi- tions of the New England tribes, they eventually killed off the giant race in the long ago Dreamtime. Old settlers' tales of the Inverell region speak of other, earlier giant fossil footprint discoveries hereabouts— so perhaps more await discovery, or re-discovery, in the scrub country of this ancient landscape. 301 Appendix D: Scientific Evidence (From http://www.internetezy.com.au/~mj129/Mysterious_Australia_Homepage.html) Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation