Safe from harm: Study reveals world record breaking dinosaur footprint park protected by mud
A new study paints an enormous picture of almost 17,000 dinosaur footprints in a mountainous area of Bolivia, making it the world's largest find of its kind that's been protected from centuries of erosion.
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00:00A team of paleontologists has discovered and carefully documented 16,600 footprints left by theroports, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.
00:14For six years, researchers explored nine different sites in central Bolivia.
00:19It's the most important finding in the world that you can observe. 1,700 footprints were found and more than 16,000 footprints simply in this area. If we talk more about the whole national park, we can find thousands and more.
00:38The footprints could be 60 million years old and come from entire herds of dinosaurs.
00:45The dinosaurs that ruled the earth and roamed this region also made awkward attempts to swim here, according to the study, scratching at what was squishy lake bottom sediments to leave another 1,378 traces.
01:00According to the scientist, the dinosaurs pressed their claws into the mud just before water levels rose and sealed their tracks, protecting them from centuries of erosion.
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