One hundred dinosaur footprints within 75 square meters had been discovered on a mountainside in Chongqing municipality, southwest China. (Photo: ChongQing Evening News)

    BEIJING, May 24 -- Chinese scientists have discovered over one hundred dinosaur footprints within 75 square meters, on a mountainside in Chongqing municipality, southwest China.

    The former curator of the Chongqing Museum of Natural History, Zhou Shiwu, and five other researchers found the fossilized footprints at the Laoyingshan mountain last October.

    The footprints range in size from 11 centimeters to 35 centimeters long, with shapes similar to clubs, chicken paws, disks and three-toes. The steps range from tens of centimeters to 1.6 meters.

    Zhou Shiwu recently sent written authentication to the local government, saying this is the first discovery of dinosaur footprints from a Cretaceous period layer in southwest China. They were formed 100 million years ago.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH. com)