![]() ![]() The Dampier Peninsula is a spot archaeologists call "Australia's Jurassic Park" or the "Cretaceous Serengeti" because it's like the fossil remains of a dinosaur zoo. If nothing else, it certainly had the biggest foot we know about. A good indication of the size of an animal is the size of its foot, if that's what you've got, and a new study out of the University of Queensland (UQ) describes a recently discovered dinosaur track found on the Dampier Peninsula on Australia's western coast that might belong to the biggest-ever terrestrial dino. (We do have one stand-out colossus - the blue whale is likely the largest animal the world has ever known.) One of the enchanting things about terrestrial dinosaurs, besides their weird horns, proportions and protuberances, is the fact that being freaking immense was pretty commonplace back in the late Cretaceous.īut the discovery of a complete skeleton of one of these big guys is pretty much unheard of, so it's tough to know exactly which of the known prehistoric behemoths was the biggest. ![]() After the fall of the dinosaurs, evolution decided to turn its laissez-faire attention to making miniature organisms like elephants. We live in a time of dainty little animals. This artist's rendition depicts a Mamenchisaurus, a sauropodian dinosaur that lived in what is today China researchers recently discovered footprints in Australia that came from a large sauropod. ![]()
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