Record breaking footprint

A newly discovered dinosaur footprint in Bolivia turned out to be record breaking. The almost 4 feet long (115 cm) footprint became the largest carnivorous footprint in the world up to date. The indentation found outside the capital city of Sucre, is thought to belong to a cousin of the T-Rex, an Abelisaurid, paraphrasing the words of Sebastian Apesteguia, a Paleontologist in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<!– more –:

Abelisaurids are typically found over South America, and many foot prints had been discovered before, but never exceeding 100 cm long. These theropods were about 9 meters long, bipedal, and had short arms, but this foot print suggests that the Abelisaurid responsible for it was about 10 to 12 meters long. This foot print not only broke a record, it also gave paleontologist a better insight about the time these animals lived. Foot prints of the early Cretaceous period were found before around Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, and it was thought that these gigantic dinosaurs lived until 100 million years ago in South America because of the age of those footprints, but this foot print tells us that these gigantic dinosaurs lived until about 70 million years ago. That’s the beauty of this footprint, it didn’t just break a record, it taught us something too.

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