The Texas floods washed away debris and dirt. They also uncovered 100

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The devastating flooding that swept through Texas Hill Country in early July, killing at least 135 people , unearthed a prehistoric discovery in Travis County on Monday, experts say.

A volunteer helping residents clear debris discovered 15 large, three-clawed dinosaur footprints scattered in a crisscross pattern along the Sandy Creek area.

“The tracks that are unambiguously dinosaurs were left by meat-eating dinosaurs similar to Acrocanthosaurus, a roughly 35-foot-long bipedal carnivore,” said Matthew Brown, a paleontologist with the Jackson School Museum of Earth History at the University of Texas at Austin.

The tracks are a