An ancient hill where you can touch thousands of dinosaur footprints

In Sucre , Bolivia , a limestone wall rises at an angle above the ground , its airfoil criss - crossed with thousands of dinosaur tracks . It ’s the bad solicitation of dinosaur step in the world . How did these 68 million - class - old print wander up here ?

Photo byLeslie Middlemass

The sincerely unusual thing is that the paries was n’t discovered until the mid-1990s , when workers from a nearby cementum manufactory saw it . According to Atlas Obscura :

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It ’s unclear how the wall went unexplored for so long , as it is filled with more than 5,000 tracks made during the second half of the Cretaceous period about 68 million years ago . There are so many track , actually – and they ’re grade in such unknown patterns – that scientists refer to the area as a dinosaur saltation storey .

So far , six dissimilar type of dinosaur print have been identified . One special lead that quantify 347 meter is the foresightful dinosaur trackway ever discovered and was made by a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex nicknamed “ Johnny Walker ” by some of the local investigator .

Eight other limestone rampart with dinosaurs track have been found in the region . Millions of twelvemonth ago , when dinosaurs walked the world , this area was part of a huge shallow lake . The architectonic plate shifts during the Tertiary period that formed the great Andes Mountains also pushed some of these limestone walls out from the seam of the lake . The rock cliff measure about 325 feet grandiloquent and juts into the sky at a 70 degree angle .

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