Each measuring about 18 to 20 inches long, the tracks are believed to have been made approximately 110 million years ago by an Acrocanthosaurus , a 35-foot-long carnivore.

The massive floods that swept through Texas this July uncovered 115-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Travis County. A volunteer discovered the footprints while helping with post-flood clean-up, and so far, 15 tracks have been identified.

Paleontologists had already identified other dinosaur footprints on the same property in the 1980s, further illuminating this site’s prehistoric past.

Texas Floods Reveal 15 Acrocanthosaurus Footprints Near Big Sandy Creek

The massive, three-toed tracks were found near Big Sandy Creek in central Texas. The brush and sediment washed away by the powerful floods had kept the trac

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