Lark Quarry, 110 km from Winton which is almost 200 km from Longreach, is the only site in the world with dinosaur tracks showing a stampede. Two groups of smaller dinosaurs are at a waterhole, when a large carnivore comes down for prey - shown in photo. The smaller dinosaurs scatter, running into each other as they try to escape, and one unlucky seems to have been caught. The tracks must have been covered in the same day by mud, which then fossilized. We were able to handle some of the fossils as we tried to imagine when the desert was a swamp. Yes Emma it did take three hours to get there, but the dinosaur tracks took a few million years to get there. Leo
Lark Quarry, 110 km from Winton which is almost 200 km from Longreach, is the only site in the world with dinosaur tracks showing a stampede. Two groups of smaller dinosaurs are at a waterhole, when a large carnivore comes down for prey - shown in photo. The smaller dinosaurs scatter, running into each other as they try to escape, and one unlucky seems to have been caught. The tracks must have been covered in the same day by mud, which then fossilized. We were able to handle some of the fossils as we tried to imagine when the desert was a swamp. Yes Emma it did take three hours to get there, but the dinosaur tracks took a few million years to get there. Leo
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