<div class="" data-article-body="true"><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Hundreds of yards of dinosaur tracks with toes and claws have been found in the Italian Alps in a region that will host the 2026 Winter Olympics, <a href="https://museodistorianaturalemilano.it/triassic-park?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:authorities said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">authorities said</a> Tuesday.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"This set of dinosaur footprints is one of the largest collections in all of Europe, in the whole world," Attilio Fontana, head of the Lombardy region in northern Italy, said during a news conference.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The tracks, which are over 200 million years old, were discovered in the Stelvio National Park, in an area between the towns of Bormio and Livigno, which host part of the Games.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Nature photographer Elio Della Ferrera first spotted the imprints in September in an almost vertical rocky slope.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Some measured up to 16 inches in diameter.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The collection "extends for hundreds of meters and also represents a series of animal behaviors, because in addition to seeing animals walking together, there are also places where these animals meet," Fontana said.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Della Ferrera called in paleontologist Cristiano Dal Sasso from Milan's Natural History Museum, who assembled a team of Italian experts to study the site.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The museum released multiple images of the footprints uncovered in the so-called valley of dinosaurs <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02HnkAVC4GhxsPpaYP4KHoUnyGyx5uMn6S8EbqND82fPwCV6hE6DGbF6pSksHdHBbEl&amp;id=100085709425775?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">on social media</a>.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"It's an immense scientific heritage," Dal Sasso <a href="https://museodistorianaturalemilano.it/documents/87930661/0/Comunicato+Stampa+Triassic+Park_definitivo.pdf/56c4381e-bc22-7035-9836-af30887bb7e4?t=1765888109142?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:said in the region's press release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">said in the region's press release</a>.</p><figure class="relative mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt="Footprints tens of meters long are clearly visible on several surfaces. At the Cime di Plator site, the fossilized footprints are imprinted with considerable depth, indicating that the dinosaurs walked on calcareous mud made very pliable by the abundant presence of water. / Credit: Elio Della Ferrera, PaleoStelvio Archive" loading="lazy" width="960" height="511" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="rounded-lg" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/tZbS1n0_HpB4fRe40hcGgg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxMTtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbs_news_897/ea39e4a8a2ee387b49e274c65565975a"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5"><div style="max-height:none;overflow:visible">Footprints tens of meters long are clearly visible on several surfaces. At the Cime di Plator site, the fossilized footprints are imprinted with considerable depth, indicating that the dinosaurs walked on calcareous mud made very pliable by the abundant presence of water. / Credit: Elio Della Ferrera, PaleoStelvio Archive</div></figcaption></figure><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"The parallel walks are clear evidence of herds moving in synchrony, and there are also traces of more complex behaviors, such as groups of animals gathered in a circle, perhaps for defense."</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"Impressions of the toes and even the claws"</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The tracks, currently covered by snow and off the beaten track, are preserved in Upper Triassic dolomitic rocks, dating back approximately 210 million years.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Most of the footprints are elongated and made by bipeds. The best-preserved ones bear traces of at least four toes.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">That suggests they belong to prosauropods, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and small heads, which are considered the ancestors of the large sauropods of the Jurassic period like the Brontosaurus, the experts said.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Prosauropods had sharp claws, and adults could reach up to 33 feet in length.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">There may also be tracks of predatory dinosaurs and archosaurs, the ancestors of crocodiles, the press release said.</p><figure class="relative mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt="Paleoartistic reconstruction of what the environment might have looked like approximately 210 million years ago, as preserved in the rocks of the Fraele Valley (Stelvio National Park). Along the shore of the Tethys Ocean, a herd of prosauropod dinosaurs walks across an extensive muddy carbonate plain during low tide.  The herd includes young individuals, as indicated by some smaller fossil footprints. Males and females are depicted here with different coloration. / Credit: Fabio Manucci, PaleoStelvio Archive" loading="lazy" width="960" height="483" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="rounded-lg" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/EPyNcIkKvbn_6cMSJ5gvFw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTQ4MztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbs_news_897/d4e4367de0efddfd0a7503b50310ee5e"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5"><div style="max-height:none;overflow:visible">Paleoartistic reconstruction of what the environment might have looked like approximately 210 million years ago, as preserved in the rocks of the Fraele Valley (Stelvio National Park). Along the shore of the Tethys Ocean, a herd of prosauropod dinosaurs walks across an extensive muddy carbonate plain during low tide. The herd includes young individuals, as indicated by some smaller fossil footprints. Males and females are depicted here with different coloration. / Credit: Fabio Manucci, PaleoStelvio Archive</div></figcaption></figure><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The prints are on an almost-vertical slope due to the formation of the Alpine chain.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">But when the dinosaurs walked through the area, it was formed of tidal flats that stretched for hundreds of miles, and the environment was tropical.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"The tracks were made when the sediments were still soft and saturated with water, on the broad tidal flats surrounding the Tethys Ocean," ichnologist Fabio Massimo Petti said, referring to a prehistoric ocean.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"The plasticity of those very fine calcareous muds, now transformed into rock, has in areas preserved truly remarkable anatomical details, such as impressions of the toes and even the claws," he said.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The footprints were then covered by sediments which protected them, but with the uplift of the Alps and the erosion of the mountainside, they have been brought back into view.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"As the layers containing the tracks are diverse and overlapping, we have a unique opportunity to study the evolution of animals and their environment over time," geologist Fabrizio Berra said. "Like reading the pages of a stone book."</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Other recent dinosaur track discoveries</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Researchers have unearthed other dinosaur footprints recently.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Earlier this month, paleontologists in Bolivia said they found and meticulously documented <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossil-footprints-bolivia-dinosaurs-awkward-attempt-swim/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:16,600 footprints left by theropods;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">16,600 footprints left by theropods</a></span>, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">In March, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/massive-trail-of-dinosaur-footprints-found-in-england/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:scientists in England;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">scientists in England</a> discovered a 650-foot trail of dinosaur footprints made 160 million years ago by massive sauropod dinosaurs.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">In January, British researchers unearthed some <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dinosaur-footprints-biggest-site-found-uk/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:200 dinosaur footprints;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">200 dinosaur footprints</a></span> dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be the biggest in the United Kingdom.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">That discovery was announced just a few months after a team of paleontologists found <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dinosaur-footprint-discovery-different-continents-brazil-cameroon/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:matching dinosaur footprints;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">matching dinosaur footprints</a></span> on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">In October 2023, engineers in the U.K. made a <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dinosaur-footprints-found-isle-of-wight/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk='slk:"dramatic discovery";elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas' class="link ">"dramatic discovery"</a></span> of dinosaur footprints that experts believe could be from a mantellisaurus, a type of dinosaur that had just three toes on each foot and traveled on its hind legs.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nick-reiner-son-rob-reiner-his-wife-michele-arrested-jail-records-show?ftag=YHFaf537c7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, arrested, jail records show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, arrested, jail records show</a></p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/indiana-hoosiers-football-60-minutes-video-2025-12-14?ftag=YHFaf537c7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Indiana Hoosiers eye college football championship after years of struggle | 60 Minutes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Indiana Hoosiers eye college football championship after years of struggle | 60 Minutes</a></p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/details-on-nick-reiners-arrest-after-deaths-of-rob-reiner-and-his-wife-michele?ftag=YHFaf537c7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Details on Nick Reiner's arrest for murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Details on Nick Reiner's arrest for murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele</a></p></div>

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