U n monster 12 meters high, with short limbs and moving forward on its hind legs, like the Tyrannosaurus … a specimen of this type, the Abelisaurus, who could make his mark there 70 million years, in the Bolivian soil. The trace of dinosaur was discovered a few weeks ago in the Sucre region.
June 19 Grover Marquina, tour guide, was trekking in the crater of Maragua, 50 km from Sucre , constitutional capital of Bolivia. Along the way, tells CNN he discovered a giant dinosaur footprint along 1m20!
The Argentine paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia went to the scene to investigate the trace. According to him, the footprint belongs to a Abelisaurus huge dinosaur that could reach 12 meters high.
“A print of a record size of a carnivorous dinosaur discovered in South America”
The beast was not however the most of his peers. It was even a little jig, compared to Argentinosaurus, which could make the size of a six-storey building and weighs nearly 100 tons.
Abelisaurus lived in South America there are 70 million years. It belongs to the family of theropods, such as Tyrannosaurus: carnivorous animals, bipeds, to members before small but equipped with mobile claws.
Abelisaurus remains relatively unknown. Only a skull allowed scientists to collect all this information on the dinosaur, according Sciences et Avenir.
It is not uncommon to find traces of the presence of dinosaurs in these parts of America south says Sebastian Apesteguia.
a few weeks ago, a new hope of dinosaur was discovered in Argentina. But this is the first time that Abelisaurus impression of this size is discovered. Sebastian Apesteguia rather speaks an average of 80 cm to one meter.
Below paleontologist explains (in English) his discovery.
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