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EARTHDATE: April 9, 2017

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REAL LIFE NEWS: THE BIGGEST DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT IN THE WORLD, EVER

by Hazed

A dinosaur footprint has been found in Australia, and palaeontologists say it’s the largest one ever discovered.

The team from the University of Queensland in Brisbane have identified 21 different types of dinosaur tracks in a region known as Australia’s Jurassic Park, and the latest one measures 5 feet 9 inches (1.75m) in length. You can see a picture of the footprint at the source link below.

The study’s lead author, Steve Salisbury, thinks this giant print is from some kind of sauropod dinosaur, a long-necked plant-eater whose fossils have been found all over the world.

“The tracks provide a snapshot, a census if you will, of an extremely diverse dinosaur fauna,” said Salisbury. “Twenty-one different types of dinosaurs all living together at the same time in the same area. We have never seen this level of diversity before, anywhere in the world. It’s the Cretaceous equivalent of the Serengeti! And it’s written in stone.”

The study of dinosaur tracks is the result of 400 hours spent painstakingly documenting thousands of footprints, over a five year period. The tracks are estimated to be 115 to 90 million year old.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/largest-ever-dinosaur-footprint-found-in-australias-jur-1793672297

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