After this summer’s deadly floods in central Texas, a group of volunteers stumbled onto something no one saw coming — massive dinosaur footprints hidden under layers of dirt and brush. These 115-million-year-old tracks, found near Big Sandy Creek in Travis County, have sparked major excitement in the paleontology world. In fact, Brown says dinosaur tracks aren’t that rare in Texas — they show up all over the state, often in places you’d never expect. Ancient Texas Looked Totally DifferentAround 115 million years ago, Texas was part of a totally different world. They’re avoiding heavy equipment near the tracks and documenting every detail before erosion or time wipes them away again.