A handout image obtained on August 23, 2022 courtesy of the Dinosaur Valley State Park shows dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago. Posted on 08/23/2022 2:34:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A handout image obtained on August 23, 2022 courtesy of the Dinosaur Valley State Park shows dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago.
A drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that lived some 113 million years ago, an official said Tuesday.
Photos posted on Facebook show three-toed footprints leading down a dry tree-lined riverbed in the southern US state. It is "one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world," a caption accompanying the images says.
Stephanie Salinas Garcia of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said dry weather made the tracks visible.
"Due to the excessive drought conditions this past summer, the river dried up completely in most locations, allowing for more tracks to be uncovered here in the park," she said.
"Under normal river conditions, these newer tracks are under water and are commonly filled in with sediment, making them buried and not as visible," Garcia said.
Most of the recently revealed tracks were made by Acrocanthosaurus, which weighed nearly seven tons (6,350 kilograms) as an adult and stood 15 feet (4.5 meters) tall.
Another dinosaur, Sauroposeidon, also left tracks in the park. It measured 60 feet tall and weighed 44 tons in adulthood.
A handout image obtained on August 23, 2022 courtesy of the Dinosaur Valley State Park shows dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago.
The state park—located in an inland area southwest of the city of Dallas—was once on the edge of an ancient ocean, and dinosaurs left footprints in the mud, its website says.
While drought revealed the tracks, rain is in the forecast, meaning they will likely be covered once more.
"While they will soon be buried again by the rain and the river, Dinosaur Valley State Park will continue to protect these 113 million-year-old tracks not only for present, but future generations," Garcia said.
I’ve also noticed that the glaciers have vanished in Yosemite and NYC and chicago. WTAH?
Fascinating!
Very cool. Thanks for posting this.
I visited Dinosaur Valley about 20 years ago. It was a great experience to see the dinosaur tracks. It’s even better now to know that there were more.
The only thing that rivalled it was stopping at B’s Beer Barn, a nearby liquor store where you drive into a building and there are coolers of beer on both sides.
Made 113 million years ago and not filled in with hardened sediment? Call me skeptical.
Some people think birds are descended from dinosaurs. Yesterday's "Arlo and Janis" comic strip has Arlo chasing squirrels away from a bird feeder, than asking 3 little birds perched nearby, "What would cousin T-Rex think?"
"SHAME on you.. SHAME on you.." - Greta ThumbButt
This has to be a bird-like creature, otherwise the foot prints are spaced too close, laterally.
“Made 113 million years ago and not filled in with hardened sediment? Call me skeptical”.
Yeah, those are fake tracks./s
Yeah
Fred Flintstone and his Flintmobile. Outdoor BBQs with the Rubbles. Disgusting. No windmills. No EV autos. No hydropower. I deserve some reparations for missing out on dinosaurs.
I grew up in Gallup New Mexico. We used to play along some bluffs. There was a jumble of large boulders with dinosaur tracks on a stone buried in the jumble of stones. So cool
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The water is down lower than I've seen in the 40 years I've lived here.
Not easy to find shelter in a thunderstorm.
To be fair, they say “around” 113 million years ago. So . . . give or take. But, yes, an arbitrary date assignment not based upon empirical science. The tracks are reasonable evidence of a global flood, as are whale fossils in deserts and oceanic fossils on mountain tops.
Yeow, that must’ve hurt! I’d bet thousands of them died that way... Pays to be smart!
Thanks SteveH.
What gets me is how they know what type of dinosaur it was.
That is really cool.
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