A searing Texas drought has again revealed roughly 75 new dinosaur footprints in the dried Paluxy River at Dinosaur Valley State Park, about 80 miles...
by the park show volunteers brushing away dried silt and dirt to reveal the hidden prints. The dinosaurs would have left their footprints in sediment, which eventually hardened into what is now limestone.
The three-toed tracks likely belonged to an Acrocanthosaurus, which resembled a Tyrannosaurus rex. The 15-foot-tall predator weighed roughly 14,000 pounds.The second tracks likely belonged to a long-necked Sauropodseiden, which could reach more than 100 feet tall and 88,000 pounds. Sauropodseiden is the official state dinosaur of Texas.Uncovering dinosaur tracks has helped researchers learn more about dinosaurs’ day-to-day lives, like how they walked and interacted.
A searing Texas drought has revealed roughly 75 new dinosaur tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose. The tracks will not remain indefinitely, Davis said. They will be reburied and filled with sediment after a good rain or two, which helps prevent them from eroding away. Eventually, though, the tracks will fully erode.Before that happens, researchers map the tracks, take photographs, measurements and molds. Dinosaur tracks excavated from the Paluxy River in 1938 are on display at the
“These won’t be here forever,” Davis said. “We do whatever we can to preserve these pieces of history.”. Sarah Bahari is a trending news reporter. She previously worked as a writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered a bit of everything.
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