US EditionOver 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
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Over 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
Dinosaur tracks at the Carreras Pampas tracksite in Torotoro National Park. Plos OneScientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made around 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods – bipedal three-toed dinosaurs – with bird tracks also present in this ancient beach scene. Over 16,600 footprints and swim traces cover the…
The site of Carreras Pampa, inside the Torotoro National Park (Bolivia), has become a new world reference point for the paleontology of footprints. An international team led by Raúl Esperante has counted and classified an exceptional concentration of iconites on the same rock surface, with evidence not only of marching, but also of swimming and tail trawling, a behavior difficult to catch in the fossil record. The work, published in PLOS ONE, is…
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