Dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago have been revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to severe drought conditions that dried up a river, the park said in a statement.
“Most tracks that have recently been uncovered and discovered at different parts of the river in the park belong to Acrocanthosaurus. This was a dinosaur that would stand, as an adult, about 15 feet tall and (weigh) close to seven tons,” park spokesperson Stephanie Salinas Garcia told CNN in an email.
The other species that left tracks behind at the park in Glen Rose, Texas, was Sauroposeidon, which was about 60 feet tall and weighed about 44 tons as an adult, Garcia added.
This excessive drought witnessed this summer has caused a river in the park to dry out completely in most spots, thus revealing the tracks.
Texas has recently experienced extreme heat waves.
Under normal weather conditions, the dinosaur tracks found in the riverbed are under the water and filled with sediment, which makes them less visible, Garcia explained.
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