Due to a lack of water, previously hidden dinosaur footprints likely to be around 113 million years old have come to light in a dry riverbed, an official at a park in Texas, US, said on Tuesday. deep footprints were previously buried, filled with sediment and covered with water, which helped their preservation.
“Due to the excessively dry conditions this summer, the river has completely dried up in most places, which has revealed new tracks in the park,” said Stephanie Salinas García, of the Department in charge of parks and wildlife. from Texas.
Its discovery delighted the employees of this park, located near the city of Dallas and baptized as “Dinosaur Valley” due to the presence of numerous dinosaur footprints in its enclosure.
It could be one of the longest sequences of dinosaur footprints in the world, according to the caption of these impressive images published by the park on social networks. We see volunteers helping to clean them to better distinguish them.
“Most of the tracks that have been discovered recently in different places of the river in the park were left by an Acrocanthosaurus,” said Stephanie Salinas García. Adult, this theropod could measure five meters and weigh seven tons.
The Sauroposeidon is the other species of dinosaur that left footprints in the park, and could be up to 18 meters tall with its long neck and weigh 44 tons as an adult. “The dinosaur footprints in the park date back 113 million years,” added Stephanie Salinas Garcia.
The park opened in 1972 to protect these ancient remains, according to its site. But the curious will not be able to admire these new prehistoric footprints for long, because they will soon be covered with water with the arrival of the rain.
Source: BFM TV
