ITALY
This is one ext-roar-dinary find. Thousands of dinosaur footprints that date back a staggering 210 million years were discovered by a wildlife photographer in a northern Italian national park. The prints, located in Stelvio National Park in the Central Alps, span up to 15 inches in diameter and are aligned in a pattern of parallel rows, with traces of toes and claws clearly outlined. They are believed to belong to prosauropods, long-necked herbivores who stood at up to 33 feet, who were ancestors of the brontosaurus. The park is located near the Swiss-Italian border, close to where the Winter Olympics will be held next year. “It’s as if history itself wanted to pay homage to the greatest global sporting event, combining past and present
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