This year’s severe drought conditions helped unearth huge dinosaur footprints in the dry Paluxy River bed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas, USA.
According to US media reports, the footprints, which are normally hidden under water and mud, date to around 113 million years ago and have resurfaced from the largest reservoir in Texas, almost completely drained by heat and drought. without precedents.
In an interview for CNN, the park’s representative, Stephanie Salinas García, said that most of the recently discovered footprints belong to the acrocanthosaurusa species that lived in the mid-Cretaceous period, which occurred between 125 and 99.6 million years ago.
The specimen could have been four and a half meters tall and weighed about seven tons. Other footprints correspond to the sauroposeidon, a dinosaur that could reach 18 meters in height and weigh 44 tons in adulthood.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that traces of this type have been found in this place. In fact, Dinosaur Valley takes its name from the many remains that have been discovered, which showed that the area was previously inhabited by many dinosaurs and located by the sea, which allowed the footprints of these gigantic reptiles to remain in the mud.
However, the park noted that the recent find is one of the largest footprint trails in the world, so they must now be preserved for future generations and protected from environmental influences such as rain, so that many people can continue. marveling at the remains of extinct dinosaurs.
As they will soon be buried again by rain and river, Dinosaur Valley State Park will continue to protect these 113-million-year-old trails, not only for current generations, but for future generations as well.
– Stephanie Salinas Garcia
Source: Okchicas
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