Impressive: a gigantic dinosaur footprint of about 1.20 m, was found earlier this week in Bolivia by a local tour guide at random to hike the crater Maragua. It belongs to a carnivorous extinct for 70 million years, the aberlisaurus.
What surprises archaeologists? Traces usually found in this region do not measure more than a meter. One of them, Argentina’s Sebastian Apesteguia, has also been sent to the site. “This is the largest footprint of carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in the world,” he told the US channel CNN.
aberlisaurus lived in the Late Cretaceous in South America looked a lot like Tyrannosaurus, especially in its ability to move on its two hind legs. Scientists have only a fossil of this dinosaur, skull exposed at the Provincial Museum of Cipoletti, Argentina.
From this element, they managed to create a sketch but this impression could enable them to confirm their assumptions, including the exact size of the animal, previously estimated at between 6.50 and 9 meters. The specimen that has left this trace in the Bolivian soil could indeed measure up to 12 meters.
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