Dinosaur Tracks Uncovered in Victoria

Palaeontologists from America and Australia have uncovered three separate sets of dinosaur tracks at a site near the town of Inverloch in Victoria, Australia - making them the first of their kind to be discovered in Victoria.

Reporting the findings at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Austin, Texas on 19 October 2007, Dr. Anthony Martin, senior researcher at Emroy University (USA), said that the tracks were approximately 14 inches long and were most likely made by large carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous Period - 115 million years ago!

Dr. Martin discovered two of the tracks during a visit to the Inverloch site in February 2006, with the third track located by Monash University undergraduate volunteer, Tyler Lamb, in February 2007.

Dr. Martin collaborated with noted Australian palaeontologists Dr. Thomas Rich (Museum of Victoria), Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich (Monash University) and Lesley Kool (Monash University) in classifying the tracks. (Image reproduced from Science Daily)