‘Unparalleled’ number of dinosaur tracks found in Australia
10 years agoThis undated handout from the University of Queensland released on March 27, 2017 shows Dr Anthony Romilio and Linda Pollard from the university creating a silicon cast of sauropod tracks in the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone in the Walmadany area of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. An "unprecedented" 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been found on a stretch of Australia's remote coastline, scientists said on March 27, 2017, referring to it as the nation's Jurassic Park. Steven W. SALISBURY / UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND / AFP
Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University said it was the most diverse such discovery in the world, unearthed in rocks up to 140 millions years old in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
