Discovery in Iran: Footprints of 109 Million Year-Old Dinosaurs
Northern Kerman is replete with fossil sites, and now, a 109 million year-old rock has been unearthed near Zarand, Kerman.
It contains 15 fossilized footprints of dinosaurs from the same time: the Cretaceous period, known in many languages (including Farsi/Persian; “doraaneh gachi“) as the “chalk period”.
The footprints discovered are said to belong to a mother dinosaur and her young.
We bet paleontologists around the world are buyinf their plane tickets to Iran… as we type. We just wish others would have a little more respect for one of the world’s most ancient (and targeted) landmasses.
