Under normal weather conditions, the dinosaur tracks found in the riverbed are under the water and filled with sediment.
"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 close to seven tons," park spokesperson Stephanie Salinas Garcia told CNN in an email.
Dinosaur tracks dating from around 113 million years ago were revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas, the park said in a statement on Aug. 22.The other species that left tracks behind at the park in Glen Rose, Texas, was Sauroposeidon, which would be about 60 feet tall and weigh about 44 tons as an adult, Garcia added.-- the latest long-hidden secret recently exposed as bodies of water have dried up due to drought conditions across the globe.
More than 60% of Texas was experiencing drought last week in two of the most intense categories, according to the. The state also recently has experienced heat waves that pushed temperatures into the triple digits, leaving millions under excessive heat alerts. The human-caused climate crisis, too, has increased the potential for more frequent dramatic swings in periods of drought and high precipitation, such as flash flooding this week in the Dallas area.
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