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The dried up river has revealed dinosaur tracks weighing tens of tons. Upon further investigation, it turned out that the marks were from more than a hundred years ago.
Reported from CNN, Thursday (7/9/2023), Texas experienced a record-breaking summer accompanied by a severe drought. This caused the water level to drop and a group of volunteers made an extraordinary discovery.
Paul Baker, retail manager at Dinosaur Valley State Park, told CNN he had never seen so many dinosaur tracks before.
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“It’s great to see something no one else has ever seen. It’s almost like a treasure hunt,” Baker said.
“I thought I had seen all the dinosaur tracks there is, but in the last two years with the drought we’ve had and the hard work of our volunteers it’s been an amazing sight,” he said.
Dinosaur Valley State Park, about an hour and a half south of Dallas, is home to a large number of dinosaur tracks scored by the sauropods and theropods that lived in the area some 113 million years ago.
Dinosaur tracks in the United States (Photo: CNN)
This location attracts dinosaur enthusiasts and tourists who usually flock to the Paluxy River. Today the site is dry and more hospitable for fishing, swimming and kayaking.
As the water levels lower this summer, more ancient history is being revealed.
A severe drought has spread across parts of Texas since June, and extreme drought is now covering more than a third of the state, according to a report by the United States Drought Monitor.
“This was the hottest June I’ve ever had, and I’m 45 now. I don’t remember the riverbed showing. It was like dry bones,” Baker said.
In an area where many new dinosaur tracks have been found, Baker said the limestone in the river bed sometimes reaches temperatures of 53 degrees Celsius, and the heat dries out the soil even more.
Finding an important part of paleontological history was a positive side of extreme weather for Glen Kuban. He has worked and written about Paluxy dinosaur tracks in and around Dinosaur Valley State Park for more than 40 years.
And this year, Kuban work has mostly focused on cleaning up two large sites in the park, known as the Ballroom and Denio sites.
He plans to expand his mapping of the park’s trails to include trails that were previously buried under mud and water.
They concluded that the newly discovered tracks most likely belonged to two theropod species, namely Acrocanthosaurus, which weighed up to 7 tons, and Sauropodseiden, also known as Paluxysaurus, which weighed about 44 tons.
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2023-09-07 07:05:13
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