Texas found new dinosaur tracks after a river dried up because of the drought

Dinosaur Valley State Park is near Fort Worth along the Paluxy River. It has 20 miles of trails where people can camp and see dinosaur tracks. It was one of many places in the state that were affected by a drought last week.

"Due to the extreme drought this past summer, the river dried up completely in most places," Stephanie Salinas Garcia from the park's press office told CBS News. This made it possible to find more tracks in the park.

Visitors can now see the new tracks in the riverbed that used to be hidden by water and mud.

The tracks are thought to be from two different species, including the theropod Acrocanthosaurus, which stood about 15 feet tall and weighed 7 tons.

Some of the tracks have also been linked to the giant 60-foot-tall Sauroposeidon, which weighed close to 44 tons.

"It's always exciting to find these discoveries and see new dinosaur tracks at the park," Garcia said.

Rain is coming, so the new tracks will likely be buried again soon. But park visitors won't be able to see them for a while, and they won't be able to see them for a while, but the sediment helps protect the tracks from weathering and erosion.

"Even though the rain and river will soon cover them up again, Dinosaur Valley State Park will continue to protect these 113-million-year-old tracks for future generations as well as those who live now," Garcia said.

As hot weather and the climate crisis cause water levels to drop in the US and around the world, the new dinosaur tracks are just the latest strange things to be found. The fourth set of human remains was found at Lake Mead in Utah earlier this month.