Winter Olympics venue near site of 20,000 dinosaur footprints, officials say
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A Winter Olympics event in Italy is near the site of 20,000 dinosaur footprints, officials announced on Tuesday. The prints date back about 210 million years.
Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.
The estimated 20,000 footprints are believed to date back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period and made by long-necked bipedal herbivores that were 33 feet long, weighing up to four tons, similar to a Plateosaurus, Milan Natural History Museum paleontologist Cristiano Dal Sasso said.
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