Excessive drought in Texas dried up a river in Dinosaur
Valley State Park, exposing new dinosaur tracks that
were previously filled with sediment.

(Fox News) – The drought of 2022 that has ravaged Texas
throughout the summer has helped uncover some
prehistoric treasures.

According to Dinosaur Velley State Park, The tracks date
from around 113 million years ago.

The tracks were found in a dried up river bed that is normally
under water and covered with mud. But because of the drought,
the river has dried up significantly in recent weeks to unveil the
massive tracks.

Acrocanthosaurus was one of the largest theropods, with the
largest specimen reaching 36 feet long and weighing
approximately 3.6–4.4 metric tons.

Rain in the area is expected to cover those tracks up again in
the coming days.

On August 12, 1990, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovered
three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota.

They turn out to be part of the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton
ever discovered, a 65 million-year-old specimen dubbed Sue, after its
discoverer.   

Amazingly, Sue’s skeleton was over 90 percent complete, and the
bones were extremely well-preserved. Hendrickson’s employer,
the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, paid $5,000 to
the land owner, Maurice Williams, for the right to excavate the
dinosaur skeleton, which was cleaned and transported to the
company headquarters in Hill City. The institute’s president,
Peter Larson, announced plans to build a non-profit museum
to display Sue along with other fossils of the Cretaceous period.

Susan Hendrickson