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A handful of Olympic participants will be competing where giants once roamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A wildlife photographer in Italy happened to come upon one of the oldest and largest known collection of dinosaur footprints at a national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics<\/a> venue of Bormio, officials said Tuesday. The entrance to the park, where the prints were discovered, is located about a mile from where the Men\u2019s Alpine skiing will be held.<\/p>\n

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The estimated 20,000 footprints are believed to date back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period and made by long-necked bipedal herbivores that were 33 feet long, weighing up to four tons, similar to a Plateosaurus, Milan Natural History Museum paleontologist Cristiano Dal Sasso said.<\/p>\n

“This time reality really surpasses fantasy,” Dal Sasso added.<\/p>\n

Wildlife photographer Elio Della Ferrera made the discovery at Stelvio National Park<\/a> near the Swiss border in September. The spot is considered to be a prehistoric coastal area that has never previously yielded dinosaur tracks, according to experts.<\/p>\n

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The location is about 7,900-9,200 feet above sea level on a north-facing wall that is mostly in the shade. Dal Sasso said, adding that the footprints were a bit hard to spot without a very strong lens.<\/p>\n

“The huge surprise was not so much in discovering the footprints, but in discovering such a huge quantity,\u2019\u2019 Della Ferrera said. “There are really tens of thousands of prints up there, more or less well-preserved.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Though there are no plans as of now to make the footprints accessible to the public, Lombardy regional governor Attilio Fontana hailed the discovery as a “gift for the Olympics.”<\/p>\n

The Winter Olympics are set to take place Feb. 6-22.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n

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