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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 07:02 PM Aug 2025

Dinosaur footprints from 115 million years ago found after Texas flood - ABC News



Ancient dinosaur tracks from 115 million years ago emerged in Texas after recent flooding. Scientists found evidence of massive predators and plant eaters near Austin.

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Those dinosaur tracks can't be a day over 6,000 years old.
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sop

(19,336 posts)
1. Trump will fire the scientists, the bible beaters say the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 07:21 PM
Aug 2025

Attilatheblond

(9,249 posts)
2. But, it seems their GOD sent another flood to show them the evidence Earth is MUCH older
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 07:36 PM
Aug 2025

Sometimes Mother Nature 'takes the wheel'.

LearnedHand

(5,604 posts)
4. I've seen huge dinosaur footprints in the Bandera area
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:06 PM
Aug 2025

Which is right down the road from the flood area. But these have been visible for decades.

txwhitedove

(4,405 posts)
6. We even have a State Park: "Dinosaur Valley State Park is a state park near
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:55 AM
Aug 2025

Glen Rose, Texas, United States known for having 113 million-year-old well-preserved theropod and sauropod footprints across five main tracks throughout the 1.52k-acre park.[2][3] The tracks were formed along the coast line of what was a vast inland sea, when these dinosaurs stuck their feet into fine-grained limy soft mud, their footprints were perfectly preserved.[4] In 1909, the area was uncovered when a child discovered "large, three-toed tracks" along the river following a flood on the Paluxy River a year earlier."

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