15 dinosaur footprints dating back 115 million years have been found after a flood in Texas. (Photo: Kenneth Bader/UT Austin)
Researchers say Texas flooding has revealed 15 dinosaur footprints dating back 115 million years.
The tracks were discovered in northwest Travis County by volunteers helping clean up after devastating floods hit the region in July, Travis County Judge Andy Brown, the county's top administrator, told ABC News. On Aug. 5, paleontologist Matthew Brown confirmed the authenticity of the three claw prints, each about 18 to 20 inches (46 to 51 centimeters) long.
“The tracks that are definitely dinosaur tracks were made by carnivorous dinosaurs that resembled Acrocanthosaurus, a bipedal predator that was about 36 feet long,” Brown, director of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Texas at Austin, told CNN.
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