The world's largest dinosaur footprint found in Australia

Dinosaurs were the largest land creatures that ever inhabited the planet. But even among them you can find the very self. This happened recently in Australia: on one of the coasts, paleontologists discovered the largest traces of the world's largest dinosaur to date.

Jurassic Park

Dampir Peninsula on Australia’s west coast is often called the "Jurassic Park of Australia" because it really contains the remains of an entire dinopark. Recently, imprints of 21 species of Jurassic dinosaurs have been found on a 25-kilometer stretch of coast that the local tribe calls Valmadani.

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Scientists have counted thousands of tracks from the tracks (although some can hardly be called "tracks" rather as motorways), 150 of them are associated with specific types of dinosaurs: predators, brontosaurs, two-legged herbivorous ornithopods and long-tailed sauropods. Valmadani is also home to the only "confirmed" stegosaurus found in Australia.

Interestingly, dinosaur tracks appear in the traditional songs of the gularabulu people, the traditional inhabitants of Valmadani. It is believed that these traces belong to the creator of the world named Maral - human emu.

Long neck and huge legs

Last year, a dinosaur footprint of 106 cm long and 77 cm wide was discovered in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Researchers estimate that the owner of such tracks should be at least 30 meters long and 20 meters high. Therefore, they hastened to call the find the traces of the largest dinosaur.

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But paleontologists from Australia found a new record holder: a track 1.7 meters long. It belongs to the sauropod - a representative of large herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks that moved on four legs and were huge in size. These include, for example, diplodocus and brontosaurs.