Dinosaur footprints found in northern Thailand
Was Thailand once home to Triassic Park? A drought in the northern reaches of the Kingdom has uncovered a flood of dinosaur footprints estimated to be 225 million years old, as more evidence emergences that prehistoric Thailand was once prime real estate for the massive animals roaming the Earth.
A geologist with the Office of Mineral Resources visited the site in the northern province of Phetchabun, which was a stream that had dried up to due to the lack of rainfall affecting the area. A geologist, Kamonlak Wongko, said that the prints appeared to be those of sauropods, a species of long-necked herbivores that proliferated during the Triassic Period.
Known as “The Age of Reptiles,” the Triassic…
