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How Old are the Tracks

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A Strange Discovery in Massachusetts!
1802

Imagine finding a dinosaur track in your backyard! That is exactly what
happened to a boy named Pliny Moody in 1802. Pliny was helping to plow
his father's field in South Hadley, Massachusetts when he turned up a slab of red sandstone imprinted with mysterious tracks. This was one of the first findings of Dinosaur tracks ever recorded and soon the discovery brought other curious folks to Massachusetts to look for tracks.
Piny's tracks were a mystery. In 1802 no one had ever heard of dinosaurs, so what type of animal could have made these tracks?

A strange and mysterious
track found in
South Hadley, Massachusetts
A few years after Piny's discovery a young man named Edward Hitchcock discovered more strange tracks while hiking along the banks of the Connecticut River. These tracks were less than a mile west of the tracks that Piny found.