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Patrick Pester

Like 'walking through the woods of millions of years ago': Ancient ecosystem brimming with dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska

Landscape image showing the De Long Mountains.

Researchers have discovered a cache of 100 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and other fossils embedded in the foothills of an Alaskan mountain range. 

The fossil site, in the Nanushuk Formation beneath the De Long Mountains, provides a window into a thriving Cretaceous ecosystem populated with dinosaurs of all sizes, according to a University of Alaska Fairbanks statement released March 8. 

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