Texas drought reveals dinosaur footprints created more than 100 million years ago
PaluxyA replica of an Acrocanthosaurus skeleton is on display in the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery at the Witte Museum.WitteAcrocanthosaurus ambling
slowly through the mud along the seashore near present-day Glen Rose. The dinosaur may have been scavenging for prey trapped in tidal pools left behind when the waters receded.was a fearsome, meat-eating dinosaur that roamed Texas during the early Cretaceous period, according to Adams. The apex predator of its time, it predates the better know Tyrannosaurus Rex by about 50 million years.
“The footprints they left behind would dry out and harden within days or even hours,” Adams said. “When the water rose, it would cover the tracks, which became filled with sediment, so they’d be protected from erosion.”, better known as"Dinosaur George," operates a traveling dinosaur museum. While he said he’s only seen photos of the Dinosaur Valley tracks, they seem to display what he called “mud collapse.
“This could mean that the animal was a young one,” he said. “Because an adult that weighed more would be less willing to walk in the thick, sticky mud.”Courtesy of the Witte MuseumThere are hundreds of known dinosaur footprints across Texas and about 60 individual sites with anywhere from one track to more than 300, according to Adams. The only publicly known dinosaur tracks inAcrocanthosaurus
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