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.
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.
Most of the recently revealed tracks were made by Acrocanthosaurus, which weighed nearly seven tons as an adult and stood 15 feet tall. A handout image obtained on August 23, 2022 courtesy of the Dinosaur Valley State Park shows dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago.—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.
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