Dinosaur Dance Floor Discovered at Colorado’s Dinosaur Ridge 🦖💃

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Dinosaur Dance Floor Discovered at Colorado’s Dinosaur Ridge 🦖💃 https://animalvised.com/ Description: Scientists uncovered a massive 100-million-year-old dinosaur “dance floor” at Dinosaur Ridge near Denver. Dozens of scrape marks indicate ritual courtship displays by species like Ornithomimids and Acrocanthosaurus—revealing dinosaur mating behavior like never before! 🌍  🏷️ Hashtags #DinosaurDanceFloor #DinosaurRidge #FossilDiscovery #Paleontology #DinosaurCourtship #ColoradoScience #CretaceousEra #AncientBehavior #ScienceDiscovery #LekBehavior

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00:00Imagine a giant dinosaur date night, 100 million years ago in Colorado.

00:06Scientists found dozens of scrapes, gouges, and claw marks at dinosaur.

00:11Ridge apparently left behind as dinosaurs performed courtship dances to attract mates.

00:18Using high-resolution 2024 and 2019 drone photos, researchers mapped 35.

00:26Distinct scrape zones, some bowl-shaped, others long and narrow.

00:31All signs of ritual displays, not feeding or territory marking.

00:36This could be the biggest known dinosaur-leck in history,

00:40where male dinosaurs gathered to dance, spar, and impress females just like modern birds.

00:47These traces date back around 100 million years.

00:51Likely made by theropods like Acrocanthosaurus or Ornithomomids.

00:55Daily Galaxy

00:56The system prohibited walking on the site, so drones were key to uncovering the evidence.

01:03What's more fascinating, some scrape spots appear in different sediment layers,

01:07meaning dinosaurs likely return to the same gathering spot season after season.

01:13From Jurassic courtship to Stone Age dance rings, wild behavior, now frozen in time.

01:20Follow for more uncoveries from deep time.

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