The intense heat and lack of rain in Glen Rose, Texas caused a massive drought that revealed 113 million year old dinosaur footprints. While tracks aren’t as rare as bones, they are still a very uncommon find. 

The tracks have revealed more details about how dinosaurs may have walked, how much that one particular dinosaur weighed, and possibly even how tall it was. 

Stephanie Salinas Garcia, the park’s spokesperson, has identified what the prints belonged to, and shared the information with CNN through email. “Most tracks that have recently been uncovered and discovered at different parts of the river in the park belong to Acrocanthosaurus. This was a dinosaur that would stand, as an adult, about 15 feet tall and (weigh) close to seven tons,”.

The Acrocanthosaurus was similar in appearance to the very well-known Tyrannosaurus rex. Although, one of its very prominent features that separates the two is the presence of a spine-like structure on its back. It is also called the “high spine lizard”.

While dinosaurs can be much larger than 15 feet, it is still an incredible discovery in any stature in Glenrose, Texas. Although, even larger dinosaur prints have been found in that very same river.

The e are several other dinosaur tracks throughout the dried river, belonging to numerous other species of various shapes and sizes. One of which being Sauroposeidon, typically 60 feet tall and weighing 44 tons as an adult.

Sauroposeidons are gargantuan reptilian dinosaurs with incredibly long necks. They are often portrayed in the media, and are sometimes the first to come to mind when thinking of that time period. Their long necks were used for eating leaves out of hard-to reach trees, much like giraffes.

Ell Samara stated that, “I believe this new finding is going to help with the research of prehistoric animals exponentially.”