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
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.
The rest of the dino’s skeleton has yet to be identified, but the size and shape of the foot bones indicate that it once belonged to a brachiosaur. These long-necked herbivores lived about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic Period.