Devastating Texas floods have unveiled over 100 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Travis County.
According to CNN, floodwaters that swept through Texas Hill Country last month unearthed prehistoric dinosaur tracks in Travis County last week.
The volunteers, while helping residents to clean up debris, found 15 big dinosaur footprints with three claws scattered in a crisscross pattern in the Sandy Creek area.
While talking about the discovery, Matthew Brown, a palaeontologist, said, “The tracks that are unambiguously dinosaurs were left by meat-eating dinosaurs similar to Acrocanthosaurus, a roughly 35-foot-long bipedal carnivore. (Waterways) cut through the Glen Rose Formation limestone, which is the rock layer that bears the tracks and is about 110-ish million years old.”
“We’ve been talking with the environmental monitoring company too about sensitive locations that they’ve gotten from the state and what to watch out for … basically, to make sure that they’re not rolling heavy equipment across the trackways,” he added.
Photos of the site showed the big dinosaur tracks embedded in the rocky white ground with swollen rivers and streams in Central Texas.
Furthermore, Travis County is just 200 miles south of Dinosaur Valley State Park, which has numerous sauropod and theropod tracks dating back 113 million years. The park is a popular spot for dinosaur fans and tourists.
The devastating flood in Texas Hill Country early in July killed at least 135 people and forced hundreds to evacuate.
