Yesterday I took a trip to Glen Rose, TX to visit the Dinosaur Valley State Park. I have seen dinosaur bones in a museum and even dinosaur tracks in museums, but I have never seen dinosaur tracks “in the wild.” I was not only amazed by how preserved they were but how they felt like a direct link back to these creatures. The footprints look as if they could have been left yesterday buy animals just walking through, not some animal that died over 90 million years ago. It also amazes me to think that these footprints have withstood eons of time and were still so well preserved. It would honestly amaze me if a footprint survived a week not only millions of years. I mean consider this… a living breathing dynamic creature walked across the shoreline of an ancient sea and left footprints. The creature went on it’s way and lived it’s entire life. The species that creature belonged to went extinct. That ocean receded. Meteors hit the earth, continents shifted. Climates changed. New animals evolved and even went extinct too. People evolved. Wars were fought, civilizations rose and fell like the waves on that long gone ocean.
And yet those foot prints remain.
What may look like holes in the rocks are actually footprints for a giant sauropod believed to be Sauroposeidon.
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