US EditionThousands of Dinosaur Tracks Counted in Bolivia, "Largest Number of Prints Ever Counted"
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The footprints in Toro Toro National Park have been known since the 1960s. But in recent years, a team of paleontologists has mapped the entire area. They found 16,600 prints, the largest collection in the world.
Dinosaur tracks have long been known to exist near the Bolivian village of Torotoro, but the exact number is only now becoming clear. After six years of research, paleontologists have determined that the footprints number approximately 16,600, spread across a large, rocky landscape in the eastern Andes. The three-toed prints have long captured the imagination of locals. Residents told each other legends about supernatural monsters with the power…
A major discovery in the world of paleontology. In Torotoro National Park, in central Bolivia, scientists have discovered several thousand dinosaur footprints. This is the largest known collection of footprints from a single location on Earth.
A team of paleontologists, mainly from the University of Loma Linda in California, has meticulously discovered and documented 16,600 traces of theropods, the group of dinosaurs that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex. Their study, based on six years of regular field visits and published last Wednesday in PLOS One magazine, reports that this finding represents the largest number of theropod footprints recorded in the world.Continue reading...
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