Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Largest Dinosaur Footprint Ever Has Been Found in Australia's 'Jurassic Park'

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 

  







Picture Source: Collected from Internet

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