Hundreds of dinosaur footprints have been found embedded in flat rocks in the western province of British Columbia. The prints suggest the area some 1,500 km northeast of Vancouver was a kind of thoroughfare for dinosaurs between 115 and 117 million years ago.
Some tracks would have been made by the allosaurus, an 8.5-metre-long, two-legged predator with a massive head and rows of sharp teeth. Others indicate the presence of the ankylosaurus, a four-legged, nine-metre-long herbivore weighing almost 6,000 kilograms.
Paleontologist Rich McCrea wants the provincial government to protect the area and to turn it into a tourist zone similar to one that exists at Drumheller in the neighbouring province of Alberta.
“It would be one of the top sites, unquestionably,” said McCrea, who’s part of a local crowdfunding campaign to raise $190,000 to research and promote the dinosaur track site. “It already looks like it’s going to be one of the biggest sites in Canada. That also means one of the biggest sites in the world.”
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