By Tim Binnall
A severe drought in Texas has led to the discovery of a series of dinosaur tracks that were left behind around 113 million years ago. The sizeable markings were reportedly found last week in a dried out riverbed in Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is renowned for the number of prehistoric prints that can be found at the location. Officials at the site say that the creature responsible for the three-toed tracks was an Acrocanthosaurus, a Tyrannosaurus Rex relative that would have stood approximately 15 feet tall and weighed a whopping seven tons.
Normally hidden beneath sediment and the waters of the Paluxy River, the prints have only recently become visible due to the difficult drought conditions impacting the area. To that end, with rain forecast for the region, it is expected that the tracks will soon be covered once again, making their proverbial moment in the sun rather brief. That said, park officials say that this is actually for the best as the river, when it is flowing, serves to protect the prints from being exposed to the elements which could cause them to vanish for good.