Question

1 dinosaur valley state park is located in glen rose, texas. it covers 1,587 acres of land. visitors come from miles around to view the giant dinosaur tracks left on the bed of the paluxy river, a tributary of the brazos river. most of the tracks are sauropod tracks left by sauroposeidon proteles. these tracks are large elephant-like tracks. 2 the other type of tracks that can be seen are theropod tracks. these tracks are smaller and often show a distinct three-toed pattern. these tracks are believed to have been made by the acrocanthosaurus, a smaller relative to the tyrannosaurus rex. 3 in 1908, a flood destroyed bridges and culverts on the river and scoured the riverbed. a year later, a nine-year-old boy named george adams discovered a large, three-toed track in the limestone bed of the river. 4 nearly 30 years later, r. t. bird, a fossil collector for the american museum of natural history in new york, saw one of the tracks in a shop in new mexico. he wanted to check it out for himself, so he headed to texas. he discovered that there were not only the three-toed theropod tracks but also what looked like sauropod tracks. this was the first proof that sauropods walked on land. 4* the illustration of the acrocanthosaurus and the sauroposeidon proteles is included most likely to — a explain how the two dinosaurs left the tracks at the park b compare the differences in what the two dinosaurs ate c show the difference sizes of the tracks left by each dinosaur d show what the two dinosaurs might have looked like

Explanation:

The illustration is of the two dinosaurs themselves, not their tracks. Illustrations of animals are typically used to depict what they might have looked like. Option A is about how tracks were left (not shown in the illustration), Option B is about diet (not depicted), Option C is about track sizes (illustration is of dinosaurs, not tracks).

Answer:

D. show what the two dinosaurs might have looked like