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Lark Quarry, in outback Australia, is currently the
only recorded dinosaur stampede on earth. In this place,
around 95 million years ago, a large herd of small two
legged dinosaurs gathered on the banks of a forest lake
to drink.
The herd was stalked by a large theropod – four
tonnes of sharp-clawed, meat-eating dinosaur. The herd
panicked, stampeding across the muddy flats to escape
the theropod’s hungry jaws.
A record of those few terrifying minutes is cast in
more than 3300 fossilised footprints. The footprints
tell us about a cooler, wetter world, when dinosaurs
roamed the earth and the mammal’s time is yet
to come. |