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The drought gripping
Texas
has dried up a riverbed that runs through Dinosaur Valley State Park, uncovering
footprints of giant reptiles
that lived about 113 million years ago, an official said Tuesday.
Images posted on Facebook show
three-toed footprints running
down a dry riverbed in this southern US state.
It is "one of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world," says a message that accompanies the images.
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Stephanie Salinas Garcia of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has said the dry weather has made them visible.
"Due to excessive drought conditions last summer, the river dried up completely in most places, allowing more footprints to be discovered in the park," she notes.
"Under normal river conditions, these new tracks are underwater and are commonly filled with sediment, burying them and making them not as visible," he adds.
Most of the newly revealed footprints correspond to
Acrocanthosaurus
, weighing approximately 6,350 kilos as an adult and about 4.5 meters tall.
Another dinosaur, the
Sauroposeidon
, also strolled through the park.
In his case, he was about 18 meters tall and weighed 44 tons.
Located in an inland area southwest of the city of Dallas, this park was once on the edge of an ancient ocean, and dinosaurs left their footprints in the mud, according to its website.
In any case, rains are expected in the coming weeks, so the newly discovered footprints will surely be covered once again.
"Soon they will be buried again by the rain and the river, but the Valley of the Dinosaurs State Park will continue to protect these 113-million-year-old footprints not only for this generation, but for future generations," Garcia concludes.
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