A 66-million-year-old dinosaur highway in Bolivia reveals more than 16,000 fossil footprints from the final days of the dinosaurs
Scientists have discovered over 16,000 dinosaur footprints in Bolivia's Torotoro National Park, dating back 66 million years. The site, dubbed a 'dinosaur highway,' provides significant evidence of prehistoric migration patterns just before the mass extinction event.
Why it matters
This discovery offers unprecedented insight into the behavior and movement of dinosaurs, helping paleontologists better understand the final days of the Cretaceous Period.
Millions of years before roads connected modern cities, dinosaurs were already following well-worn routes across ancient landscapes. A remarkable fossil site in central Bolivia has preserved this prehistoric movement in extraordinary detail. Scientists have documented more than 16,000 dinosaur footprints at the Carreras Pampa tracksite in Torotoro National Park, making it the world's largest known concentration of dinosaur tracks from a single sedimentary layer. Dating back around 66 million years to the final chapter of the Cretaceous Period, the site offers a rare glimpse into how dinosaurs moved, hunted and interacted shortly before the mass extinction that brought the Age of Dinosaurs to an end.Where is the 66-million-year-old dinosaur highway?The fossil tracksite is located at Carreras Pampa inside Torotoro National Park in central Bolivia.
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