Paleontologists went to the restaurant and used a 3D scanner to confirm that it was the tracks of two brontosauruses from the early Cretaceous period.
Dinosaur footprints from over 100 million years ago were spotted by an observant diner with a love for paleontology at a restaurant in China.
Xing said his team used a 3D scanner to confirm that it was the tracks of two brontosauruses from the early Cretaceous period, considered to be about 145 million to 100.5 million years ago. . This was still millions of years before the first Homo sapiens appeared, according to the National History Museum.
"The first snakes evolved during this time, as well as the first flowering plants. Various insect groups appeared, including bees, which helped increase the spread of flowering plants. And mammals now included tree climbers, ground dwellers and even predators of small dinosaurs," the National History Museum states.
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