Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.

A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a national park in the Bolivian Andes. These vast arrays of footprints, left by gigantic, two-legged dinosaurs from the group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex, were found in ancient waterways more than 60 million years ago.

It is the first time dinosaur footprints have been reported in Dujiangyan. Xing said these prints include theropod footprints of different sizes, left by meat-eating dinosaurs, as well as chirotherian-type tracks,

New dinosaur footprints dubbed Ruopodosaurus clava were made by armoured ankylosaurid dinosaurs. While the exact species that made these footprints is unknown, it was likely similar to Gobisaurus or Jinyunpelta, both known from China. (Sydney Mohr via ...

Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters.

Dinosaur footprints went from prehistory to current affairs when they were unearthed in a property owner’s backyard after recent floods in Travis County. But the discovery of dinosaur remains in Texas — even in backyards — is not unusual, experts said.

More than 20 vertebrate track fossils, including multiple dinosaur footprints estimated to be about 200 million years old, have been identified on a rock wall in Dujiangyan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province,