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Dried up river in Somervell County reveals dinosaur tracks

Dried up river in Somervell County reveals dinosaur tracks
Dried up river in Somervell County reveals dinosaur tracks 00:29

SOMERVELL COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas.com) – The lack of rain across Texas has led to a pretty cool discovery in Somervell County. 

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A series of giant dinosaur tracks were found in a dried up riverbed near Glen Rose, about an hour south of Fort Worth. 

Paleontologists believe at least some of the prints belong to a dinosaur that lived around 110 million years ago and weighed about 44 tons.

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