What Caused the Dinosaur Stampede?

In Outback Australia fossilised footprints tell a tale of utter chaos. Hundreds of dinosaurs fleeing for their lives. 100,000 million years later, a team of scientists are on a quest to find out who or what made them run.





One of the most recently revised cases involved the approximately 100-million-year-old Lark Quarry in Australia. This place, an immense tracksite, is said to preserve the signs of a seldom-seen dinosaur stampede. The old story went something like this. A huge aggregation of small, bipedal dinosaurs were hanging out along the shore of an ancient lake. The small dinosaurs had no idea they were being watched by hungry eyes. Without warning, a huge carnivorous dinosaur burst from its cover in a nearby stand of trees. Little dinosaurs scattered everywhere, leaving behind evidence of a dinosaur stampede.


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