113 million year old dinosaur footprints discovered due to severe drought
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Dinosaur footprints about 113 million years old have been unearthed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to a severe drought that dried up a river, the park said in a statement.
“Most of the footprints that have recently been discovered and found in different parts of the river in the park are from Acrocanthosaurus. It was a dinosaur that, as an adult, was about 15 feet tall and (weighed) about seven tons,” Park spokeswoman Stephanie Salinas Garcia told CNN in an email.
Another species that left footprints in a park in Glen Rose, Texas, was Sauroposeidon, which reached about 60 feet and weighed about 44 tons as an adult, Garcia added.
Excessive drought this summer has caused the river in the park to dry up completely in most places, exposing footprints – the latest long-hidden secret, recently revealed as waterholes dried up due to drought around the world.
Dinosaur footprints date back to about 113 million years ago.
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