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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Carlos Guerrero and Isabel Debre

Discovery of record number of dinosaur footprints to reveal secrets of two-legged giants

Tourists look at the petrified footprints of dinosaurs at Carreras Pampa in Toro Toro National Park, north of Potosi, Bolivia - (Associated Press/Juan Karita)

Bolivia's central highlands, once believed to be home to monstrous creatures leaving huge, three-toed footprints, have now yielded the world's largest collection of theropod dinosaur tracks.

A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a national park in the Bolivian Andes.

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