New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once
Roamed Northern Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska - A joint University of
Alaska Fairbanks/Anchorage expedition team has discovered a
significant variety of single dinosaur footprints and sets of
prints, or trackways, on Alaska's North Slope. Faculty and
students from the University of Alaska Museum along with team
members from the UAF and UAA geology departments collected casts
and impressions of five different types of dinosaurs in the
foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range during the summer 1998 field
season. A total of 13 new track sites were located along a
75-mile stretch of the Colville River in National Petroleum
Reserve-Alaska. The presence of the newly discovered tracks,
trackways and trampled surfaces are at least 25-million years
older than the well-known dinosaur bone beds farther to the
north. This discovery provides the first direct evidence that
dinosaurs were numerous and diverse in the Arctic 90-110 million
years ago. Previously, there was only