ASHGABAT, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - Geologists in eastern Turkmenistan have discovered more than one hundred fossilized dinosaur footprints, believed to be some 145 million years old, national media said on Wednesday.
A whole 'field' of three-toed footprints, possibly made by plant-eating dinosaurs, was found at a height of 800 meters (2,600 feet) in the country's mountainous Gaurdak region.
Each of the footprints is about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long.
Similar traces of plant-eating dinosaurs were also earlier discovered in the same region in Turkmenistan, as well as in nearby Tajikistan.
Earlier this week, Russian scientists in St. Petersburg displayed a remarkably well-preserved 37,000-year-old frozen baby mammoth, known as Lyuba.
