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Over 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia

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par Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University

Scientists 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 ancient trackway surface, all heading in the same direction. Swim traces form when floating or swimming animals briefly…

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