The largest dinosaur foot ever belongs to 'Bigfoot'

The largest dinosaur foot ever found, belonging to one of the largest land animals this planet's ever seen, surely deserves the title "Bigfoot" more than Sasquatch.

Excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, and described in a new study published in PeerJ – the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, "Bigfoot" was discovered in the Black Hills area of Wyoming. Scientists determined the dinosaur — a very close relative of Brachiosaurus — had the biggest feet of any sauropod, and roamed the area 150 million years ago. 

Crew member Anthony Maltese, who is also the lead author of the study, writes that the foot was nearly 1 meter wide. It didn't belong to the largest dinosaur ever discovered, the study said, but "Bigfoot" did have particularly large feet. Read more...

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