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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

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

© Davide Bonadonna, Milan, Italy

By Cassie Martin

July 24, 2018 at 7:00 am

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