This picture, offered by town authorities in Geoje, reveals a stegosaurus footprint fossil on Geoje Island, South Gyeongsang Province. Courtesy of Geoje metropolis authorities
By Jung Min-ho
Researchers have found footprints left by a stegosaurus some 150 million years in the past on Korea’s southeastern island of Geoje, in line with its officers on Monday.
A staff of researchers, led by Kim Kyung-soo, a professor at a geological heritage analysis heart beneath Chinju Nationwide College of Training, discovered the footprints in Cheonggok-ri — the primary proof displaying that the dinosaur species as soon as wandered in Korea.
Stegosauruses are identified for his or her kite-shaped plates, which march throughout their backs. They may develop 7 meters lengthy and weigh greater than 3 tons.
In a city-funded undertaking to review the fossil website on the island’s northwestern area, the staff additionally discovered the footprints of a hadrosaurus and different species, in addition to 11 fossilized imprints of dinosaur pores and skin.
Extra particulars about their discoveries are anticipated to be revealed at a briefing set for Friday. Points akin to find out how to protect and make the most of the location might be mentioned on the occasion.
The analysis undertaking was proposed after a suspected dinosaur footprint was found by a journey agency proprietor in 2019. The undertaking is anticipated to shut formally subsequent month with a remaining report.
Final 12 months, fossilized eggs of herbivorous dinosaurs had been present in Korea’s southwestern area of Sinan.
That location was simply 100 meters away from the location the place a fossilized nest of carnivorous dinosaurs was found in 2009.
