Latest find as water levels fall: Dinosaur tracks in Texas- UPSC Daily Important Topic | 28 August 2022

✓The Drought this summer led to drying of water bodies exposing submerged World War II relics in Europe, several sets of human remains at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, and even an entire village in Spain.

● Latest Findings:

✓Drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park texas, exposed dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago that were previously hidden underneath the Paluxy River

✓The tracks belong to Acrocanthosaurus which are theropods, or bipedal dinosaurs with three toes and claws on each limb.

✓The dinosaur would have stood 15 feet tall and weighed close to seven tons as an adult.

✓Dinosaur tracks collected from the Paluxy River in 1938 are on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

✓The footprints occur on a sedimentary rock unit called the Glen Rose Formation, which is mostly limestone, deposited about 105 to 110 million years ago