2023-09-04 02:42:36
The Paluxy River, located in Dinosaur Valley National Park in Texas, has dried up due to warm temperatures and a lack of rainfall, revealing dinosaur footprints dating back 110 million years.
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It was a group of volunteers who discovered these giant footprints described as a “treasure” by a park director, reports CNN.
“It’s exciting to see something no one else has seen before,” explains Paul Barker. I thought I’d seen every dinosaur track there was, but over the past two years with the droughts we’ve had and the hard work of our volunteers, it’s unbelievable.”
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Park experts have determined that these tracks were made by an Acrocanthosaurus, a carnivorous bipedal predator believed to weigh 7 tons, as well as a Sauroposeidon, a giant herbivore that could have been up to 18 meters tall and weighed 44 tons.
“It is important to specify that the drought does not magically reveal the traces in a very good state, specifies the expert Glen Kuban to CNN, he who has worked in the park for more than 40 years. It sometimes takes several weeks to fully clear up the traces.”
Paul Baker/CNN
This location about an hour south of Dallas is where several dinosaur-related discoveries have occurred in recent years.
Mr. Kuban also organized last year the cleaning and mapping of the longest track of dinosaur tracks in North America in the park with more than 130 footprints.
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