Alaska’s Denali National Park was once home to dinosaurs

Alaska's Denali National Park, which is quite popular among nature lovers for the tallest mountain of North America and a variety of wild animals, was once home to dinosaurs.

The National Park Service announced on Wednesday that the fossilized bones that were unearthed during a July 2016 expedition at the part belonged to dinosaurs. The expedition was conducted by a team of paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Park Service.

In addition to those fossilized bones, researchers discovered numerous dinosaur trackways, impressions of dinosaurs' footprints.

Project leader Pat Druckenmiller, who is also a curator of Earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, said the discovery of the bones opened a new chapter in the story of Denali dinosaurs.

Speaking on the topic, Druckenmiller added, "That story is still being written as we find new sites, new kinds of dinosaurs and evidence of their behavior . Now that we have found bones, we have another way to understand the dinosaurs that lived here 70 million years ago."

The researchers also concluded that one of the fossilized bones belong to a cold-blooded extinct creature called ectothermic, while one other bones belongs to a large ornithopod dinosaur, most likely a duck-billed dinosaur called hadrosaurs, which were the most common to roam Alaska during the Cretaceous period.