Posted on 12/17/2025 10:18:35 AM PST by rktman
MILAN (AP) — A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announced Tuesday.
The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, experts said.
“This time reality really surpasses fantasy,’’ said Cristiano Dal Sasso, a paleontologist at Milan’s Natural History Museum, who received the first call from wildlife photographer Elio Della Ferrera after making the discovery.
The dinosaur prints are believed to have been made by long-necked bipedal herbivores that were up to 10 meters (33 feet) long, weighing up to four tons, similar to a Plateosaurus, Dal Sasso said. Some of the tracks were 40 centimeters wide, with visible claws.
The footprints indicated that the dinosaurs traveled in packs and they sometimes stopped in circular formations, possibly as a protective measure.
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Don’t eat the yellow snow.
There are quite a few large dinosaur footprints near Tuba City, Arizona. Most are from 2-3 foot long and look exactly like they were made by an enormous chicken.
My money is on the Dinosaurs to win gold in every event.
I wasn’t aware Pelosi had visited.
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All of the earth has been covered by the oceans at times.
And scientists will still claim man and dinos didn’t coexist.
SUVs? I thought a Comet did in the dinosaurs.
Just imagine all the buried footprints in areas that humans have left. White Sands lately has shown a lot, those have really shook up human migration theories so much that it’s a bit so much that many won’t talk about it.
What in this story refutes that claim?
Reptiles grow until they die. Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years. Reptiles lived a long time back in those days and got really big.
I guess that was their stompin’ ground.
Are there no photos in the linked article or were you just too lazy to post them?
Because the headline promised photos. If you don’t repost the photos, clicking on the link to your thread was a waste of my time.
It’s a better use of my time to click on the link to the story and ignore your post.
Triassic Park.
How did they walk up the steep side of that cliff without falling? :/
The plane of the sedimentary rock was changed creating the dip
Nice not many left a keeper.
Were they repelling down or free climbing up?
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