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Some time ago, found dinosaur tracks in South Wales, United Kingdom. After intensive research, scientists believe the age of the traces of the ancient animal reaches 200 years.
Paleontologists at the Natural History Museum, who researched it for some time, believe that the footprints were left by a sauropod or early prosauropod dinosaur from the Triassic period.
As quoted detikINET according to Sky News, the trail was discovered on a Penarth area beach by an amateur scientist named Kerry Rees in 2020, who later reported it to the Natural History Museum.
Initially skeptical because of the sheer number of such reports, Dr Ssusannah Maidment and Professor Paul Barret finally decided to research it and now believe the traces are from an early dinosaur.
“We get a lot of reports from residents for something that is judged to be likely to be a trace of the past, but a lot of it is just a biological profile that easily just looks like a footprint,” the professor said.
But from the photo sent by the inventor, he decided to check it out because it looked pretty convincing and it was true that it was dinosaur tracks from hundreds of millions of years ago.
It is estimated, these traces come from the dinosaurs who in their lifetime were walking actively. According to Paul, traces of this kind are rare things found around the world.
“Type dinosaur tracks such is not common around the world, so we believe this is an interesting addition to our knowledge of Triassic life in England,” he added.
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