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Paleontologists have ID’d the world’s biggest known dinosaur foot

A newly described fossil, measuring nearly a meter wide, may have belonged to a brachiosaur

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BIGFOOT  The largest dinosaur foot fossil yet found may belong to a long-necked brachiosaur (illustrated) from the late Jurassic Period.

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By Cassie Martin

- More than 2 years ago

One dino is putting its biggest foot forward.

A nearly meter-wide fossilized dinosaur foot, unearthed 20 years ago from mudstone in northeastern Wyoming, is the largest yet found, an international team of researchers reports July 24 in PeerJ.