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On 8/31/23 5:51 PM, Popping Mad wrote:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drought-reveals-113-million-year-old-d
inosaur-tracks-in-texas-180982829/
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> Drought has dried up part of a river in central Texas, revealing
> 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks.
>
> The prehistoric footprints emerged at Dinosaur Valley State Park, which
> is located in the town of Glen Rose, southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth
> area.
>
> As the name suggests, the park already protects other dinosaur
> footprints. But the tracks that recently emerged are usually hidden
> under the mud, silt and waters of the Paluxy River. This summer,
> however, water levels have dipped so low that the prehistoric
> indentations are now visible. So far, volunteers have counted 75 newly
> exposed footprints in the parched riverbed.
>
> "It has been another very hot, very dry year, so our researchers are
> trying to take advantage of the drought," says park superintendent Jeff
> Davis to the Dallas Morning News` Sarah Bahari.
>
> Two different types of dinosaurs likely made the footprints, according
> to park officials. One was Acrocanthosaurus, a 15-foot-tall carnivore
> that weighed approximately 14,000 pounds. As the gargantuan reptile
> walked around the area on two legs, it left behind the outline of its
> three-toed feet. The other was Sauroposeidon proteles, which has been
> the official state dinosaur of Texas since 2009. This long-necked
> behemoth may have measured up to 100 feet long and weighed closer to
> 88,000 pounds. It left behind larger, bulbous-shaped tracks that are
> similar to elephant footprints.
>
> One footprint appears to be a "double track"--an example of two
> overlapping Acrocanthosaurus tracks, as Davis tells KSAT`s Mary Claire
> Patton. (Or, as the nonprofit Friends of Dinosaur Valley State Park
> joked on Facebook, a "huge 6 toed clawed prehistoric monster track.")
This is the spot where creationists have historically found most of
their Mesozoic human footprints.
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