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Bolivia's Record-Breaking Dinosaur Footprint Discovery

  • In 2006, Bolivian paleontologists had already discovered 5,000 dinosaurs' footprints.

    In 2006, Bolivian paleontologists had already discovered 5,000 dinosaurs' footprints. | Photo: Reuters

Published 24 April 2015
Opinion

Tens of thousands of dinosaur prints have been found in Bolivia in recent years.

A group of Bolivian, European and U.S. scientists discovered at least 10,000 footprints of dinosaurs Thursday, making the Andean country the owner of the largest paleontological areas in the world ever discovered.

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The footprints, found on the hill of Cal Orcko close to the Bolivian capital of Sucre, are about 65 million years old. In 2006, about 5,000 footprints had already been discovered in this area, belonging to tyrannosaurs, theropods and other kinds of reptiles.

Sucre's mayor Moises Torres announced he will ask the UNESCO to register the footprints in the list of world heritage sites. 

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