A team of US and Bolivian researchers has revealed that the Carreras Pampa archaeological dig site in Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park is the single largest dinosaur track site ever discovered.

How many individual prints have to be at the site to nab to make that kind of claim? Try 18,000 individual prints preserved across what used to be the muddy shoreline of a shadow freshwater lake about 70 million years ago.

According to research published in PLOS One, nearly all the tracks belong to theropods, the bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that are cousins of today’s birds. The site boasts an absurd 16,600 three-toed prints, plus almost 1,400 “swim tracks,” where dinos apparently kicked along the lake bottom like giant dogs.

The prints range from dainty 10-centimeter foot taps to massive 30-ce

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