Dinosaur track site in Alaska reveals remarkable details of the past

08-15-2023
By Andrei Ionescu
Earth.com staff writer

A team of researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has recently unveiled what is possibly Alaska’s largest single dinosaur track site. Nestled in the Denali National Park and Preserve, this remarkable location has been called “The Coliseum” by the scholars.

Spanning an area akin to one-and-a-half football fields, The Coliseum boasts numerous footprints immortalized in rock. This extensive site provides a snapshot of various dinosaur species that roamed what is now Interior Alaska approximately 70 million years ago.

Walking back in time

“It’s not just one level of rock with tracks on it,” said lead author Dustin Stewart, who conducted this research during his graduate studies in Paleontology at UAF. “It is a sequence through time. Up until now, Denali had other track sites that are known, but nothing of this magnitude.”

To the untrained eye, amidst the vast terrain of the park, this site might appear to be just another multi-layered rocky rise, stretching over 20 stories. But as the experts soon discovered, its significance ran deeper.

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