![]() ![]() When the meteor hit, scorching heat burst in all directions, baking this dinosaur community right into earth-the footprints, the eggs, the dung and even an almost-entire dinosaur skeleton-all of it fossilized just off this wilderness highway. Yet, the majority of the footprints seem to face the direction of the crater-as if these large reptiles were transfixed by a fiery display in the sky. Some footprints indicate running-confusion as traffic collided in the final moments of a chaotic world. The site lies some miles north of an ancient meteoric crater, and the story seems relatively clear from the evidence left behind. ![]() The expanse of fossils and footprints, scattered throughout this portion of the Painted Desert on a Navajo Indian reservation, attests to a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. ![]() D inosaur Tracks, the almost homemade-looking sign says on the side of Highway 160 just west of Tuba City, Arizona, on the way to the Grand Canyon. ![]()
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