As It Happens6:36Researchers discover thousands of dinosaur footprints in Alaska
Dustin Stewart has been obsessed with dinosaurs since he was nine years old. But he never dreamed he’d grow up to study 70-million-year-old footprints in Alaska.
Scientists have found dinosaur tracks in the Denali National Park before, but never anything on this scale.
Stewart, a paleontologist and graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), says there are thousands of newly found prints crawling up vertical walls “like Spider-Man.”
“Seeing that for the first time, oh, we were on the next level. Unbelievable. Everyone was excited,” he told As it Happens guest host Paul Hunter. “[They were like] ‘Oh,
