An impressive discovery was made in Bolivia earlier this week. Grover Marquina, local tour guide, fell nose to nose during a hike on the Maragua crater with a strange shape on the ground. The imprint, still deeply marked in the rock is none other than a Aberlisaurus, a dinosaur. Bolivia is the country with the largest number of world dinosaur footprints, with nearly 10,000 tracks.
The guide found hidden under a mound imprint formed by several rocks. At first he thought it was a simple hole but very quickly realized that not.
Returning to town, he warned the authorities who sent a recognized paleontologist locally, Sebastian Apesteguia. The latter was very surprised by this discovery, not that such traces are rare in the region, but by its size. Indeed, the footprint measuring 1.2 meters long against less than a hundred feet usually. The paleontologist said on CNN: “ This is the largest footprint of carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in the world ”
The Aberlisaurus missing for 70 million years, lived in South America during the Cretaceous and looked exactly like the famous Tyrannosaurus rex , particularly in its ability to move on its two hind legs . He was also equipped with a powerful jaw and a multitude of sharp teeth, with two arms atrophiés.Seul a fossil of this dinosaur was found there several years, a skull, exposed to Cipoletti provincial museum in Argentina.
From the imprint of paws, the scientists have managed to create a sketch that would suggest that the dinosaur was not measuring between 6 and 9 meters as they believed, but rather could reach 12 meters high.
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