NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Located on a cliff bordering the Gulf of Alaska, set inside one of the wildest and least visited places in the National Park System, are hundreds of dinosaur footprints. For Paleontologist Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, who is also the executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, these tracks help shape the narrative of how dinosaurs traveled to New Mexico millions of years ago.

"Every trip we find more, which is just sort of a mind-blowing experience; that one of the best records to study dinosaurs and their environments anywhere in the world is one of the hardest places to get to," Fiorillo said about his 12th visit to the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve in August to study dinosaur tracks.

Fiorillo has conducted research in Alaska for 28

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