Video: Traces left by dinosaurs 130 million years ago: the incredible landmark of Ganteaum Point (Australia)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Which of us in childhood was not carried away by stories about dinosaurs? To find out what these giant animals, one of the first inhabitants of our planet, looked like, many go to museums or look for their images in encyclopedias, but not everyone knows that there is a place on our planet where real prints of their footprints have been preserved! it Ganteaum Point, a place in an Australian city Broome, where, according to the assurances of scientists, you can find footprints dating back 130 million years.
Broome is famous among tourists for its magnificent nature; in Ganteaum Point, travelers can admire the red sandy rocks, among which dinosaurs once roamed. At low tide, fossil footprints can be seen along the coast 30 meters from the coastline. Getting to the trail is quite difficult, so most tourists limit themselves to contemplating plaster casts made by scientists, they are located at the top of Ganteaum Point.
Dinosaurs lived in this area during the Cretaceous period, then the territory of modern Bruma was a river delta. At least nine species of giant lizards lived in these parts, as evidenced by the found footprints. Scientists found that all of these dinosaur species inhabited the Australian mainland.
Among the tracks were found those that belonged to carnivorous tyrannosaurs, herbivorous ankylosaurs with "armored" shells, vegetarians ornithopods and stegosaurs. The giant footprint, reaching 1.7 m in diameter, according to the researchers, belonged to the huge four-legged dinosaur sauropod.
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