World’s Biggest Dinosaur Foot Has Been Identified by Paleontologists
20 years ago, the largest dinosaur foot ever to be found– measuring almost 3 feet across — was found in Wyoming. The size and shape of the bones have led researchers to believe that it belonged to a brachiosaur who would have lived about 150 million years ago. David Burnham, a paleontologist at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, estimates that the dinosaur was about the length of a blue whale.
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“These things were just huge.” David Burnham, via ‘Science News’
So huge, that this particular dinosaur has earned the nickname “Bigfoot.” It was originally known that brachiosaurs of the late Jurassic period roamed parts of what is now Colorado, Utah and southern Wyoming. “Bigfoot” was found in northeastern Wyoming, which indicates that brachiosaurs roamed further than previously thought.