New Delhi: Palaeontologists have documented more than 16,000 tracks made by dinosaurs at the Carreras Pampas tracksite in Torotoro National Park in Bolivia. The tracks were from theropod dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ranging in size from less than ten cm to more than 30 cm. The tracks are in the context of ripple marks, indicating that these dinosaurs were moving along an ancient shoreline. The site sets a number of new world records, including the highest number of individual footprints, the longest continuous trackways, as well as longest tail and swimming traces. The density of tracks indicates that this was a high-traffic area, with parallel tracks indicating that the dinosaurs were moving in groups.

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