German scientists have found an unusually long trail of footprints from a 30-tonne dinosaur in an abandoned quarry in Lower Saxony, a discovery they think could be around 145 million years old.
“It’s very unusual how long the trail is and what great condition it’s in,” excavation leader Benjamin Englich told Reuters at the site, referring to 90 uninterrupted footprints stretching over 50 meters. Their diameter measured 1.2 meters.
Englich and his team found the impressions in the central German region while excavating at the quarry in the town of Rehburg-Loccum near Hanover on Wednesday.
Englich said the elephant-like tracks were stomped into the ground sometime between 135 and 145 million years ago by a sauropod – a class of heavy dinosaurs with long necks and tails.
“We don’t have a complete skeleton for a dinosaur this big from this time period,” said Englich. “That means it’s a species we haven’t seen before from this era.”
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