{"id":422111,"date":"2026-08-31T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422111\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:58:08","slug":"hutto-hiker-discovers-impressively-preserved-dinosaur-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422111\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutto hiker discovers impressively preserved dinosaur track"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dinosaur track discovered along Brushy Creek in Hutto is offering a glimpse into Central Texas\u2019 prehistoric past.<\/p>\n

For Gio Bernabe, walking along Brushy Creek is a chance to explore, fish and look for anything interesting.<\/p>\n

But during a recent Saturday afternoon walk, she came across something she never expected to find.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I saw there was like this huge imprint of kind of like a foot, like a three-toed foot,\u201d Bernabe said. \u201cSo I looked at it and I kind of cleaned it up and it looked like a dinosaur foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bernabe posted a photo of the print on social media, where it quickly attracted attention from the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so excited because this is honestly one of my biggest dreams,\u201d Bernabe said. \u201cI’ve always wanted to find something like, really cool like this, like fossil-related, and I found it in Hutto, Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Sagebiel with the Jackson School of Geosciences\u2019 Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections<\/a> examined the tracks and confirmed they belonged to a dinosaur. He said the tracks are particularly well preserved. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can only think of a couple of places where, in this area, where we have tracks that are that age, that are that well preserved,\u201d Sagebiel said. \u201cWe get a lot of really faint tracks or partial tracks, but a beautiful one like that is a very nice find.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dinosaur tracks are relatively common around Austin, according to Sagebiel. However, they are more often found west of Interstate 35, where older rock formations are exposed.<\/p>\n

The size and spacing of the tracks can help researchers identify the type of dinosaur that made them.<\/p>\n

Sagebiel said the tracks likely came from a large, plant-eating, two-legged dinosaur \u2014 possibly a Hadrosaur, also known as a duck-billed dinosaur.<\/p>\n

\"Hadrosaur This distinctive dino from North America is a member of the family hadrosauridae.Getty Images<\/p>\n

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