“This remarkable site, known as Cal Orcko, lies near the city of Sucre, Bolivia, and preserves one of the largest collections of dinosaur footprints ever discovered. The vertical wall, towering nearly 300 feet, was once a muddy lakeshore during the late Cretaceous period.
Over time, layers of sediment hardened into limestone, recording the movements of ancient creatures. Geological uplift and quarrying later tilted these layers, revealing what looks like a wall but is actually the petrified floor of a prehistoric landscape turned on its side.
More than 5000 tracks stretch across the surface, belonging to at least ten species, including titanosaurs, ankylosaurs, and theropods. Among the most famous is a 347-foot trackway believed to have been made by a juvenile Tyrannosaurus-like predator nicknamed “Johnny Walker.” Each footprint is a frozen step in time, capturing a moment when dinosaurs crossed the muddy flats in herds, leaving behind a living record that would survive 65 million years of change.
Added fact: The wall is still slowly eroding, and conservationists race against time to preserve it; parts of it have been incorporated into a nearby museum called Parque Cretácico, where visitors can view the footprints up close.
Source is from historyfeels on IG.
maaschine on
spiderpig
OrneryAttorney7508 on
wtf
Evilbred on
So you expect me to believe T-Rex could walk up walls? Miss me wit dat shit.
suicompotem on
Awesome
Miserable-Ad-2720 on
Amazing evidence of plate tectonics. Makes me wonder if the separation of Pangea caused flat earth to uproot like this.
Empty-Emphasis-8386 on
5000 prints? It must of been Fred Flintstones retirement party. At least now they’re using bulldozers
Fetlocks_Glistening on
Spider-saurus, spider-saurus, does whatever a spider saw us
Vivid_Ice_2755 on
It’s been 65 million years ago for aaagggeeesss
Ghastly-Rubberfat on
The flat-earthers are gonna poop
fearswe on
There should be a pair of Claw Clamber Boots nearby.
sunsetgalaxy on
Why do people think the dinosaur climbed the wall? you know what happened geological changes in which this wall could have been on the ground and by moving the geo-axial plates it rises like this.
Willobtain on
That’s Spider-Man
keajohns on
This was obviously before gravity existed.
coomzee on
Amazing if that was split a few cm more we would never know.
Justaguywithbeer on
Spider pig was here
Lord_Tiburon on
Spider-Rex
hbgwine on
Or 6,000 years ago depending on your view of evolution and creation. /s
ConversationBasic195 on
Please, someone, show this to the creationists!!
Budget-Procedure-427 on
🤔🤔
Significant_Wasabi_6 on
Remarkable. Boggles the mind that an area like this could somehow just be turned on its side as a whole.
StarbuckWoolf on
MFers were agile af.
/s
AnOopsieDaisy on
Imagine seeing this in ancient times—they probably would think a giant climbed that cliff.
unkanlos on
Spidersaur, Spidersaur, can he swing from a web? No he can’t he’s a saur
sikkar47 on
Bolivia and Paraguay held A LOT of cool and even strange stuff. I can’t understand why science does not devote more attention to these places
ffhhssffss on
“Dinosaurs from over 65 million years ago!!!’
Well, obviously. That’s kinda when they died. Find some footprints dating back 30 million years ago and you might get a Nobel.
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“This remarkable site, known as Cal Orcko, lies near the city of Sucre, Bolivia, and preserves one of the largest collections of dinosaur footprints ever discovered. The vertical wall, towering nearly 300 feet, was once a muddy lakeshore during the late Cretaceous period.
Over time, layers of sediment hardened into limestone, recording the movements of ancient creatures. Geological uplift and quarrying later tilted these layers, revealing what looks like a wall but is actually the petrified floor of a prehistoric landscape turned on its side.
More than 5000 tracks stretch across the surface, belonging to at least ten species, including titanosaurs, ankylosaurs, and theropods. Among the most famous is a 347-foot trackway believed to have been made by a juvenile Tyrannosaurus-like predator nicknamed “Johnny Walker.” Each footprint is a frozen step in time, capturing a moment when dinosaurs crossed the muddy flats in herds, leaving behind a living record that would survive 65 million years of change.
Added fact: The wall is still slowly eroding, and conservationists race against time to preserve it; parts of it have been incorporated into a nearby museum called Parque Cretácico, where visitors can view the footprints up close.
Source is from historyfeels on IG.
spiderpig
wtf
So you expect me to believe T-Rex could walk up walls? Miss me wit dat shit.
Awesome
Amazing evidence of plate tectonics. Makes me wonder if the separation of Pangea caused flat earth to uproot like this.
5000 prints? It must of been Fred Flintstones retirement party. At least now they’re using bulldozers
Spider-saurus, spider-saurus, does whatever a spider saw us
It’s been 65 million years ago for aaagggeeesss
The flat-earthers are gonna poop
There should be a pair of Claw Clamber Boots nearby.
Why do people think the dinosaur climbed the wall? you know what happened geological changes in which this wall could have been on the ground and by moving the geo-axial plates it rises like this.
That’s Spider-Man
This was obviously before gravity existed.
Amazing if that was split a few cm more we would never know.
Spider pig was here
Spider-Rex
Or 6,000 years ago depending on your view of evolution and creation. /s
Please, someone, show this to the creationists!!
🤔🤔
Remarkable. Boggles the mind that an area like this could somehow just be turned on its side as a whole.
MFers were agile af.
/s
Imagine seeing this in ancient times—they probably would think a giant climbed that cliff.
Spidersaur, Spidersaur, can he swing from a web? No he can’t he’s a saur
Bolivia and Paraguay held A LOT of cool and even strange stuff. I can’t understand why science does not devote more attention to these places
“Dinosaurs from over 65 million years ago!!!’
Well, obviously. That’s kinda when they died. Find some footprints dating back 30 million years ago and you might get a Nobel.
I didn’t realize Spiderman was that old.