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More Than 2,000 #Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in #Italy's #Alps
Two hundred million years ago, #prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.
The finding in #Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss border, consists of thousands of fossilized footprints more than 200 million years old. The tracks, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards, are so well preserved that marks of toes and claws are visible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/science/dinosaur-footprints-olympics-italy.html
https://archive.ph/CUy3r

More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps

Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.

The New York Times

MediaFaro Magazine Dec 16

Stelvio national park: Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy.

The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows, and many show clear traces of toes and claws.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251216-stelvio-national-park-thousands-of-dinosaur-footprints-found-on-italian-mountain?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Italy #Prosauropods #Science #Stelvio

Stelvio national park: Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy. The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm in …

BBC