Dinosaurs' Footprints From 70 MM Years Ago Discovered in Egypt’s Eastern Desert

Paleontologists from Wadi El Gadid University have unearthed footprints and remains of different species of dinosaurs in the Egyptian Eastern Desert that lived nearly 70 million years ago.

Egypt's Paleontologists called the finding an “incredible discovery,” describing it as critical for science.

Mohammad Qarni Abdul-Gawad, a Paleontologist, said: "We've found sixteen dinosaur footprints occurred in the Upper Cretaceous strata known as the Nubian Sandstone Formation in the south Eastern Desert, Egypt."

"Tracks discovered at that site are believed to be footprints of a dinosaur from more than 70 million years ago," Abdul-Gawad said.

The new excavation helps us address longstanding questions about Egypt’s fossil record and palaeobiology – what animals were living there, and to what other species were these animals most closely related.

"The remains and footprints of the animal also indicated the presence of many dinosaurs in the south Eastern Desert, Egypt," he noted.