At low tide near Broome (Western Australia), you can see some of the biggest dinosaur tracks in the world, made by sauropods about 130 million years ago. |
On a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline in Western Australia lies a prehistoric treasure trove. Thousands of approximately 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that can be studied only during low tide, when the sea — and the sharks and crocodiles that inhabit the region — can't hide them. What scientists found there is truly special, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. "Nowhere else has as many types of dinosaurs represented by tracks than Walmadany does," Steve Salisbury, a paleontologist at the University of Queensland and the lead author of the study, said in a video describing the area. Included among those many dinosaur tracks is the largest dinosaur footprint ever found. At approximately 1.75 meters long (about 5 feet, 9 inches), the track came from some sort of giant sauropod, a long-necked herbivore. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/largest-dinosaur-footprint-sauropod-australia-2017-3
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